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FLAMES DANCED IN THEIR HAIR BUT DID NOT BURN THEM Buxton Contemporary 26 September–6 October 2024 Melbourne
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A multi-channel video work made in collaboration with the cast of Fraught Outfit’s 2015 production THE BACCHAE, FLAMES DANCED IN THEIR HAIR BUT DID NOT BURN THEM slides between documentary and fantasy, wild theatrical ritual and intimate conversation.

In 2015, Fraught Outfit premiered THE BACCHAE, a hypnotic, music-led performance that explored sexual objectification through a mythic and contemporary lens. Made with an ensemble of 13-18-year-olds, the result was a controversy-stirring production that prompted questions about the young performers’ agency. Almost a decade later, the cast, now in their 20’s, reunite in collaboration with Kate Blackmore, Adena Jacobs, Aaron Orzech, Kelly Ryall and Eugyeene Teh.

FLAMES is a reckoning with the past, a process of ‘coming down from the mountain’, of witnessing one another again and trying to grapple with the unnameable, sometimes beautiful, often treacherous experience of forming one’s sexuality in the real world, beyond the walls of the theatre.

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Buxton Contemporary is a public art museum dedicated to contemporary art, located at the University of Melbourne’s Southbank Campus in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, Australia. Opened in 2018, the museum was purpose-built to house the Michael Buxton Collection, one of the most significant collections of recent Australian art. Designed by Australian architecture practice Fender Katsalidis, the building includes multiple gallery spaces, education facilities, and an expansive outdoor screen dedicated to moving-image art that activates the surrounding streetscape.

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Corner Southbank Boulevard & Dodds Street
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Melbourne
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Melbourne The University of Melbourne, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Dodds Street
Buxton Contemporary contemporary art institution in Melbourne Australia
Buxton Contemporary
The University of Melbourne, Corner Southbank Boulevard & Dodds Street, Southbank, Melbourne, Australia
+ 61 3 9035 9339
http://www.buxtoncontemporary.com

Opening hours
Wednesday – Sunday
11am – 5pm
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