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06/06/2024
Check out this article by Virginia Winder about Skin Hunger - One performance only on Sunday 16th June at the Taranaki Winter Fest. Book your tickets now!
The tragedy, tears and hilarity of hungering for skin When Skin Hunger star Tatiana Hotere found herself in a catfish situation on a disastrous Tinder date, the hilarity of the situation fed her playwriting muse.
Taranaki!!! Skin Hunger changed dates because I got the nasty COVID π. Fear not! The show must go on and Skin Hunger is now the last show of the Festival on Sunday 16th June. Same time (7:30 pm) same place (Theatre Royal TSB Showplace)
I'm on the mend and y'all have an extra week to get your tickets and spread the work. Let's make this a brilliant closing to the Festival π
25/02/2024
One more great review. Woohoo! π
REVIEW: Skin Hunger, Tatiana Hotere, Adelaide Fringe 2024 β β β β β β Binge Fringe Magazine Adelaide FringeGriefNew WritingStorytellingWomanhood REVIEW: Skin Hunger, Tatiana Hotere, Adelaide Fringe 2024 β β β β β Eilidh McKenzieFebruary 24, 2024 Skin Hunger is the Australian debut of the tale of Eva: a grieving widow, a h***y woman, and a practicing Catholic with chlamydia. With a bo...
The Red Hand Files - Nick Cave
Issue #274 / Feb 2024
My muses have left me and I have lost all motivation to create as a film and music maker. Have you ever felt alien to yourself and your identity as an artist?
TAM, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Every time I set foot in my studio, intentions blazing, I crumble with pathetic and flaccid paralysis. Do it, paint. No. F**k. Why not? I canβt get my brain right in that space anymore, and I thought my whole life was going to be devoted to my art. I donβt know how to reconnect or reconcile making art in a world made of war and cruelty, how would painting a fu***ng picture ever help. How do you create in this environment?
DAN, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Dear Tam and Dan,
What makes our particular job so exceptional that it requires inspiration or a muse to do it? We are artists and we labour in the service of others. It is not something we do only if and when we feel motivated β we create because it is our responsibility to do so. In this respect our occupation is no different than that of most people. Does an ordinary adult go to work only if they feel in the mood? Do doctors? Do labourers? Do teachers? Do taxi drivers? We are duty-bound to do our job, like everyone else, because the space we occupy depends upon our participation and breaks down if we donβt. A committed artist cannot afford the luxury of revelation. Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler. Muses, Tam, are for losers!
The idea that you canβt paint because the world is βmade of war and crueltyβ has to be the lamest and most faint-hearted excuse not to work I have ever heard, Dan. How will painting a fu***ng picture help? β it will help because art is the noble and necessary rejoinder to the sins of the world. When the world rushes toward us with all its streaming wounds β wanting, needing β do we cover our eyes and shrink away, do we sit and wring our hands in despair, do we run and hide, or do we hasten toward it, like we hasten toward an injured child, with our arms outstretched?
If we are to call ourselves artists then we must avoid the myriad excuses that present themselves and do our job. Yes, the world is sick, and yes it can be cruel, but it would be a whole lot sicker and a whole lot crueler if it were not for painters and filmmakers and songwriters β the beauty-makers β wading through the blood and muck of things, whilst reaching skyward to draw down the very heavens themselves.
These are perilous and urgent times. This is not the hour to sit around moaning about the condition of the world β leave that to the posturing inhabitants of that most morbidly neurotic of spaces, social media β and nor is it the moment to fruitlessly wait for inspiration to find us. Itβs time to get to work, to reach up and tear the divine idea from its heavenly cradle and proffer it to the world. Create, Tam! Create, Dan! Create like your life depends on it, because, of course, of course, it does!
Love, Nick
20/02/2024
A little note from an audience member π Come and experience this funny and heartwarming show for yourself. This week only.
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https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/skin-hunger-af2024
19/02/2024
Skin Hunger is on at the Adelaide Fringe Festival from Tuesday 20th till Sat 25th Feb. You will laugh out and may even shed a tear or two, and you will definitely be glad you came to this show! Donβt miss out. Tickets are in sale now!
βHotereβs performance was an incredible display of characterisation. Her entire demeanor, voice, and inflections shifted effortlessly between the many characters the audience was introduced to. The body language and voice encapsulated so many unique qualities of each character.β - Glam Adelaide
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/skin-hunger-af2024
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