Coil
re:group performance collective
Co-Creator, Performer and Video Designer
An elegy to the closure of the local video shop, Coil is about loneliness, nostalgia, friendship and viability. Blurring the boundaries of theatre, film and ceremony, Coil draws on our collective memories to pay tribute to the glory days of the video store, and commemorate the communities we made within them.
In a new live cinema experience, re:group reflects upon the joys, perils and pitfalls of nostalgia; outsourcing their own labour to technological replacements and grappling with goodbyes.
2022 Performed at Sydney Opera House, Mona Foma / Salamanca Arts Centre, PACT, Next Wave
2023 Australian national tour, July - September, with Arts on Tour
Images by Jacquie Manning
Credits
Created by: Steve Wilson-Alexander, Solomon Thomas, Carly Young and Mark Rogers
Performed by: Steve Wilson-Alexander, Solomon Thomas and Carly Young
Video design: Solomon Thomas
Automation programming: Chris Howell
Screenplay: Mark Rogers
Sound design: Liam Halliwell
Set design: Carly Young
Set build: Alistair Davies
Accessibility Training: Nilgun Guven
Creative Producer: Malcolm Whittaker
Developed with the support of Arts Tasmania, Australia Council for the Arts, Next Wave, PACT, Salamanca Arts Centre, Mona Foma, MERRIGONGX, Punctum, Regional Arts Fund Tasmania and Creative Partnerships Australia through MATCH Lab.