OUFF is an onomatopoeia, the heaviest of sighs.
Comprised of scripted and extemporaneous speech, live vocal processing, video installation and inflatable costumes and set, OUFF
explores the experience of a solo female negotiating the fraught
terrain of showing up to make a show, on a backdrop of commodity-crazed
neo-liberalism, the irrefutable need to address white privilege and the
waning power that the process of aging brings about in a youth-obsessed
culture in which the space between “emerging” and “established” is a
black hole.
OUFF is a solo, with interruptions. The production team
intervenes as assistants and interlopers, abetting and poking holes in
the soloist’s discourse. The costume, with its potential to serve the
performer, mutates to disrupt the diva’s movements. The set threatens to
take over as the performer continues to sing for her supper. The colour
scheme is an examination of the false equivalency of whiteness, at
times a rich-lady blonde, other times, the sick beige of a dirty
bandage, a saggy fake-tan ecru or a tipsy old rosé.
Writer, director, performer
- Alexis O'Hara
Production Design and performer
- Atom Cianfarani
Video and performer
- Simon Dumas
Sound and performer
- J'Vlyn D'Ark
Phone : 514 843-7738