utopia and the kitchen sink

Poster for Utopia and the kitchen sink. Distorted text in black and white with 2.12.20 repeated in various distorted forms down the page.

You watch it, watching them, watching you, watching them.

‘Utopia and The Kitchen Sink’ is a story of the insanity of mundanity, told by six anonymous beings.

In their world, chaos forms in puddles and potholes. Obsession seeps out of the can of beans, as bewildering life creeps out of the dusty furnishings.

As part of Triptych Festival, ‘Utopia and The Kitchen Sink’, was live streamed, as one of three parts, in December of 2020.

‘Utopia and The Kitchen Sink’ is a collaboratively curated and devised piece, exploring themes of ‘otherness’, mundanity, and Utopia’s, to connect us through collective insanity.

The performance utilised technology, such as projection mapping and live editing, to alter the landscape of the stage into various playgrounds for us to explore together.

Background of alphabetti spaghetti projected reading, really? In the midground there a series of fridges one with a tin atop it. Foreground the Tin Foil Man dressed in a suit head adorned with tin foil reading his soup to the right a lamp being.
The tin foil man striding across frame holding a vintage luggage case, in front of him a dining table and chairs. Half off frame there is a being dressed as a lamp.

The tinfoil man.

The Tinfoil Man was birthed from a luke warm can of Carling one muggy Thursday afternoon. He spends his time skimming through late night television, staring at the buzzing screen till lanky pool players become gladiators, and the washing up begins to scream. In the glimmer of his foil face, does he hope to see some semblance of manhood glint back.

The Tinfoil man was a character created as part of “Utopia and The Kitchen Sink”, through which to explore my relationship with masculinity and mundanity. During the performance, The Tinfoil Man battles his unruly kitchen, as the furnishings begin to thump. Covering my face feels the most authentic way to perform. The Tinfoil sparkles in domesticity.

As part of the marketing campaign for the festival, I created a series of videos exploring the everyday life of The Tinfoil Man, as featured above.