Now 17 - Now To Come Out Black / Story #1

How to Come Out Black
Vanessa Macaulay

How to Come Out Black exposes the humour and horror of expectations placed on a racialized female body.

A satirical rap video circus that distorts and negotiates the vision of the black woman under the lens of pop culture and stereotypes. Drawing on music videos, make-up tutorials and twerking, How to Come Out Black combines dance, discussion and parody to interrogate the hyper-sexualisation of the black female body to the point of the absurd.

Story #1
Rachel Mars + Greg Wohead

“Imagine a bullfight without the bull: it would be a set of aesthetic manoeuvres, pretty twirls and pirouettes and so on – but there’d be no danger. The bull, crucially, brings danger to the party… that’s what the real is: the tip of the bull’s horn.” Tom McCarthy

Rachel Mars and Greg Wohead take Pixar’s 22 Rules for Storytelling and How Stories Make Us Human, make them fuck each other, kidnap the resulting baby and dance out a prophecy of its future life before its barely opened eyes.

A reflective consideration of how and why we construct narrative.

We promise no less than 110 minutes.
We promise real fictional characters.
We promise a plot.
We promise a surprise twist.
We promise a rupture.
We promise an ending.

This performance contains explicit sexual content and images and is therefore recommended for ages 18+

An Ovalhouse seed commission