Supreme Ultimate / Women Of Fairfield

A collaboration between Hissy Fit and Australian-Vietnamese actor, director, martial arts specialist, Maria Tran. Staged on the top three floors of the Downey Lane Car Park. Supreme Ultimate explores the ways in which martial arts has informed identities and the ways, particularly in a cinematic context, it uses forms of control and deviancy, restrain and excess to navigate cultural and gendered domains.

Supreme Ultimate was just one part of the larger Women of Fairfield project.
Presented by Powerhouse Youth Theatre, the Museum of Contemporary Art, C3 West and the NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors

Supreme Ultimate
Created by Hissy Fit and Maria Tran
Hissy Fit is Jade Muratore, Emily O’Connor and Nat Randall
Sound design/compositon by Tom Smith
Technical Production by Andy Lysle at Technical Event Services
Stage Management by Angharad Lindley

Lighting and Interaction Design by Toby K

Interactive content was a Kinect2 sensor that picked up performers movements and translated them into live motion graphics.

 

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 8, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 8, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

 

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 8, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 7, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

 

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 7, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

 

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 7, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

 

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 7, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

 

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 7, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

 

Women of Fairfield, a multimedia twilight art walk through the streets of Fairfield on October 7, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Photo by Anna Kucera/MCA The project features work by leading contemporary artists Kate Blackmore, Hissy Fit, Maria Tran, Claudia Nicholson & Zoe Scoglio in collaboration with over 100 local women and 12 local women's community organisations. The project explores how women navigate the complexities of public space within a community that shares profound religious, cultural and social differences.

Photo by Anna Kucera

 

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