NATURAL ORDER Who or what determines our lot in life? How do we get to where we are? Is it all a consequence of the choices we make? Or is it determined by something bigger than us … Fate? God? The Universe?
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atural Order was a new multi-artform, performance installation work by Milk Crate Theatre, looking where individual effort and universal law collide. We examined how much is really up to us, the systems that keep us 'in our place', and why, despite repeated and exerted effort, the human right to dignified security is still so far out of reach for some of us. How do we challenge this? What are the actual consequences of resistance? Can we ever really get past where we are today or are we destined to be tied to the natural world order? Weaving together the Milk Crate Theatre Collaborative Artists' concerns and explorations with lived experience
of homelessness, Natural Order crossexamined the personal, political, and philosophical. An immersive installation experience comprising live performance, film, visual art, sound and movement, Natural Order was creatively led by Artistic Director Margot Politis and facilitated by some of Sydney's most exciting and dynamic contemporary arts practitioners. Natural Order was presented at the Petersham Town Hall in a non-traditional setting, with a set that moved around the audience and invited audiences to move among the work. After a two year crosscompany development, the performance took place during National Homelessness Week, August 2019.
Image Credit Left & right: Natural Order 'Cabaret' 2019, photo by Patrick Boland.
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