State of the Art

“It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening.”

– Harold Pinter, Art, Truth & Politics

State of the Art is an experimental solo performance, grappling with censorship, institutional power and weaponisation of care and accountability.

Antidisciplinary storyteller Daley Rangi will experiment with live typing and creative coding to build an entire world around a performer at a laptop. Unfolding primarily through emails, texts, and internet searches, language is revised softened and erased live as a controversy gathers pace.

The work considers how compliance theatre and appeals to social cohesion sit alongside an appetite for risk and dissent; the misguided belief in artist as moral compass. As pressure mounts, how do we speak truth to power and what are we willing to lose?

About the Artist

Daley Rangi

Daley Rangi (ia/they/he) is a shapeshifter, a Te Ātiawa Māori artist at large.

Joyfully unpredictable, they generate antidisciplinary works investigating memory, language, and power.

Men Play

After 100 years of tradition in Australia, a once popular sport played exclusively by men and boys is about to become extinct. Over a series of meetings, a committee of dedicated players scramble to save their sport in the wake of institutional crisis and social change.

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Margaret and the Grey Mare

There is an Anglo-Celtic pagan tradition in which The Grey Mare, a horse’s skull adorned with flowers, arrives in dark mid-winter. She knocks on doors and sings in riddles, and when you exhaust your answers – which you certainly will – you must invite her in.  

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About the Artist

Other Projects

Men Play

Mortified

Margaret and the Grey Mare