HotHouse Company

A RESTING MESS STUDENT REFLECTIONS

Over two weeks, five artists transformed the space down at The Hangar during their Arts residency at All Saints’ College. Students and staff were able to visit and observe both the planning stages of the work and the performance, in which the artists danced and played music inside a room while accumulating mess for hours on end. The project is designed to explore the natural energy cycles of the body, how we rest in the chaos, and whether our endeavour to create a sustainable world is having any effect at all.  

There is no one way to interpret A Resting Mess – it affects each of us personally and individually, and allows one person to take something away that another may never have thought about. 

Kelsey Biddulph (Year 11) 

I really enjoyed watching A Resting Mess during one of our classes. It was a very inspiring and mesmerising piece. It has no specific meaning and it is up to audience members to decipher what this piece means to them. I found the balance between dancing and resting thought provoking, and how the dancers tried to maintain this over a long period of time. The use of rubbish throughout the dance was also interesting. 

Jade Wheeler (Year 9) 

This is definitely a very interesting and thought-provoking project. It has made me think about environmental issues in a way I hadn’t considered before. The blending of many different mediums made the project feel fresh and different.  

James Lund (Year 12) 

A Resting Mess was about how humans are creating a mess by polluting the world. It was also about dancing and theatre. There was music that made you feel sad yet happy, worried yet safe, sleepy yet awake. The second song made me feel happy/excited and like I wanted to dance.                                       

Sienna Nanni (Year 5) 

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

CONNECTED5 EXHIBITION

All Saints' College, in partnership with the HotHouse Company, will be presenting its fifth annual fundraising art exhibition, Connected5. 

Attendees will be able to bid for artworks through an online auction with all proceeds from sales donated to Nulsen Group (one of the College’s Service Learning partners). The online auction commences at 6.00pm on opening night (Friday, 18 September) and will conclude on Sunday, 18 October. 

Exhibition Dates: Monday, 21 September - Friday, 25 September 2020. 

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION - AYLA WOODLAND

Aiming to acknowledge and recognise the outstanding creative pursuits achieved by All Saints' students outside the classroom, the second Invitational Exhibition showcases Year 12 student Ayla Woodland's artworks. The exhibition opens on Friday, 18 September.