Creatives
Choreographer / Performer
Lz Dunn
Composer / Sound Designer
Aviva Endean
Cracking
A collaboration between performance maker, Lz Dunn and composer, Aviva Endean.
Freya is the Project Producer for Cracking, working with the artists to develop the work for future presentation.
Cracking is a work in development, envisaged as a choreographic-sonic performance that queers the iconic "Australian" stockwhip. Initiated and performed by Lz Dunn, in collaboration with sound artist Aviva Endean, Cracking traverses autobiographical and cultural reference points to ask questions about origins, inhabited narratives and how we might undulate, shift and crack to give way to something else.
The Australian stockwhip is classified as a ‘Supersonic’ whip. Its loud crack is produced by a ripple traveling at high speed to break the sound barrier – a sonic boom. It originated ‘downunder’ during colonisation as a cattle-herding tool and became an iconic motif of rural Aussie masc-male culture.
As the project develops, the artists will explore the complex and troubling nature of the ‘whip’ as object and actor. Queering existing tropes and narratives, the artists will create intersections with the their own personal histories and cultural inheritances to examine a relationship between whip and voice.
Creatives
Choreographer / Performer
Lz Dunn
Composer / Sound Designer
Aviva Endean