Pulpshow is a live art performance devised and performed by Leah Shelton that critiques Australian popular culture, histories and national identity. Straddling cabaret, burlesque and performance art, the work is at times ridiculous, dark and absurd. Pulpshow was developed as a response to the growing support for a nationalistic, mono-cultural world-view, both within Australia and globally. It contains stories that are at once foreign and familiar and that speak to cultural difference and shared understandings. A performative, sonic and visual mashup of Australiana, the production team explored the use of speculative fiction and bricolage in their approach to collaborative practice and conceptual development which significantly influenced its final presentation. Pulpshow was first staged as part of the Wonderland Festival 2015 at Brisbane Powerhouse. Supported by an Adelaide Fringe Cultural Fund Artist Development Grant, it was selected for the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival and awarded the 2016 John Chataway Innovation Award (Adelaide Fringe), The Adelaide Advertisers Hitlist Best Cabaret Award and received favourable print and radio press reviews. Pulpshow underwent significant conceptual, performative and research re-development in early 2016 to be later staged as Terror Australis.
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Physical Description: 50 minutes
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Original concept, Performer, Set and Costume Design: Leah Shelton; Conceptual Collaborator: Daniel Evans; Sound Design: Kenneth Lyons; Video Design: Craig Wilkinson - optikal bloc; Lighting Design: Jason Glenwright; Production Manager: Justin Marshman; Production Assistant: Liesel Zink; Voiceovers: Margi Brown Ash, Leon Cain, Scott Wright; Images: Raw Bones and Morgan Roberts Photography; Illustration: Pete Foley
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Winner: John Chataway Innovation Award, Adelaide Fringe 2016
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Exhibition: Brisbane Powerhouse: Wonderland Festival: Turbine Studio, 10-13 December 2015; Adelaide Festival Fringe: The Garden of Unearthly Delights, 12-25 February 2016
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