Skye Gellmann in How Not to Climb a Mountain at Adhocracy in Adelaide

How Not to Climb a Mountain

In Development

How Not to Climb a Mountain (HNTCaM) is full length highly physical performance work experimenting in anarchic resourcefulness. Through a process that tests what it is to be ill-equipped, the artists collect materials, challenging their accepted uses by playing against the narratives held within them. Mountaineering ice spike shoes scale a cardboard wall then delicately yet frighteningly caress a human body. Sonic interventions arise when instruments are tormented by power tools. The movements of highly trained acrobats are disrupted by stage dollies awkwardly strapped to their bodies.

collaborating artists
Skye Gellmann
Lee Wilson
Mirabelle Wouters
Phil Downing

performers
Skye Gellmann
Lee Wilson

set and lighting design
Mirabelle Wouters

sound design
Lee Wilson
Phil Downing

producer
Michaela Coventry

How Not to Climb a Mountain is commissioned by Vitalstatistix and developed during residencies at Adhocracy, Critical Path, and Flying Fruit Fly Circus.