Entrance of the Virtual Gallery Wing where you will find details relating to the TRILOGY performance;
a satellite event to the 7th Sydney Biennale 1992

 

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the   trilogy
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THE TRILOGY STATEMENT

  For the records the first section was “The Escape of the Solstice Voyeur”. 

“The Battlefield” was set up as a war game between an Anglo-Saxon general and an Arab war lord.  All the action unravelled against a monologue which presented the action in the same way that a sports commentator would present sport.  The first presentation was in the Assembly Hall of the Australian Defence Force Academy and predated the Iraq occupation of Kuwait (and the ensuing Gulf War) by several months.  This became something of a talking point in ADFA for some time after.

“Auto da Fe” has inherited the military and social holocaust bacground.  It develops into a trial where truth will out, where cause and effect is unravelled,  where scapegoats are demanded, where the Pope frees and forgives Galileo, where the Solstice Voyeur drifts back from the first section and is left hanging by his feet in a net high above the audience.  The last moments are obscured by smoke, rotten egg gas and a hellish sulphurous light.  A robot-like machine has taken over.  Only the voice of the judge can be heard screaming repeatedly for justice and the prisoner.  How will it all end?  The audience will never find out as they are busy scrambling for the exits and fresh air.

“The Interval” describes events between the Battlefield and the Trial that follows.

This is your captain saying, “Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the trip.  Roger and out.”

 

Arthur Wicks
5 June 1996

An interesting backgroung essay written by Virginia Skinner for the Sydney University Gazette 1992, can be accessed by clicking HERE

 



Act 1
the Escape of the Solstice Voyeur

 

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Act 1: the Escape of the Solstice Voyeur

 

 

SCRIPT


to access and/or download the script for
the Escape of the Solstice Voyeur,
please click HERE

 

a slide show of 14 images
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This slide show gives a slower and more detailed set of images; provides insight into how the performance progressed.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Act 2
the Battlefield




first half of the Battlefield;
entrance of the 2 warriors & arm wresting

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Act 2: the Battlefield

 




second half of the Battlefield:
the "dialogue" between them and then the 'battle'.

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First performed at the assembly hall of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), 1992, Canberra; 6 months ahead of the ifrst Gulf War

 

 


a slide show of 14 images
click thumbnail to start large images;
click RHS last image to return here

 

This slide show gives a slower and more detailed set of images; provides insight into how the performance progressed.

 

 

 

SCRIPT

to access and/or download the script for
the Battlefield,
please click HERE

 

 

 

Act 3
the Interval

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to view the sequence

 Act 3: the Interval

SCRIPT

to access and/or download the script for
the Interval,
please click HERE

 

 

Introductory statement for the Interval:

Originally this work was used as the literal interval  in 1992, between sections 2 (“The Battlefield”) and section 3 (“Auto da Fe”) of the TRILOGY.

The basis of the Interval later became an interactive computer experience and was exhibited as such, at the 1995 Canberra National Sculpture Forum, titled:
"on War and Peace: a Virtual Encounter".
Elements of that work, which were constructed in the early nascent days of the World Wide Web can be viewed, experienced and navigated close to its original concept by visiting that Wing of the Virtual Gallery by clicking HERE.
Note: at that early point in time, audio and video had not yet been integrated into the WWW. It is a relatively clunky experience but was innovative at that time in 1995.

 

 

 

 

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Act 4
Auto da Fe


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Act 4: Auto da Fe

 

SCRIPT

to access and/or download the script for
Auto da Fe,
please click HERE

 

  

 

a slide show of 22 images
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