Moira Finucane's Rapture: Art vs Extinction
DATES: 4 – 29 September 2019
LOCATION: Fourtyfive Downstairs45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia
WEBSITE: https://www.fortyfivedownstairs.com/…/the-rapture-chapter-…/
Moira Finucane, one of the world’s greatest performance chameleons, a magic realist genius, an apocalyptic rock goddess, brings home Chapter II in her mind-stunning party on the edge of the abyss. The Rapture. Art vs Extinction. A transcendent, synaesthetic emporium of gothic-erotic dreams, rock’n’roll angels, soul searing music, porcelain icicles, couture, sculpture, skin shedding tales and total art gesamtkunstwerk. Commissioned by Climakaze Miami and Mesto Zensk/City of Women Festival Slovenia, winner of the Climakaze Award for outstanding artwork in climate justice, and universally acclaimed in its 2017 Australian premiere at fortyfivedownstairs, The Rapture returns. Rapture Chapter II comes direct from Antarctica, Berlin, Prague and the Tibetan Plateau.
Come party at the edge of the abyss.
‘I am speechless. I have just experienced something extraordinary.’ Weekend Notes
‘A fabulous, overflowing, disturbing uncanny cult … Finucane feels completely uninhibited letting the power of her words and her purpose transform her body in each moment of her performance’ Artshub
‘The ecstasy of hope, the despair of disillusionment’ ★★★★ The Age
‘Exquisite. Here, Moira Finucane channels every god and devil’ Sometimes Melbourne
‘It is sublime. It is divine. It is dangerous’ ★★★★1/2 Planet Art
‘Moira Finucane is one of the wildest, most exotic, seductive, terrifying performers you’ll ever see.’ Books and Arts, Radio National
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