We are looking for some camera crew and a lighting designer who would be
interested in helping out at a performance event called Hand to Mouth
taking place on the 29th of June at the Meat Market in North Melbourne.
We are struggling with budget at this stage but a small amount of
renumeration is up for negotiation.

Full details below:

Hand to Mouth is a performance/event taking place at the Meat Market in
North Melbourne on the 29th of June, between 6 and 9pm.

The event will involve a production line of approximately 40 people in
blue and brown uniforms working to produce strange and exotic meals
packaged in gloves, or formed in the shape of hands. These will then be
served up to an elevated table of about 10 high class guests. There will
be a live jazz band, waiters in tailored outfits and several production
controllers with megaphones. It promises to be a composition of managed
chaos.

Conceptually, the work is an investigation of relationships of
production and consumption at work in the global economy. In affluent
societies we constantly consume products that have been touched by many
anonymous hands along the way. In a sense, we are also consuming other
people’s lives in this process. The title Hand to Mouth refers both to
all these anonymous hands and to the fact that the bulk of the world’s
population still lives in hand to mouth poverty. The meal prototypes and
the structure of the event are designed to highlight the long process of
material  transformation involved in the production of  the commodities
that we consume on a daily basis. The strange and exotic meals are
rarified products to serve the constant need for novelty that drives
consumption in our affluent culture. We hope to provide a bizarre, funny
and challenging experience for all involved.

We will be producing an art film from the event and are looking for
three camera people, and a lighting design consultant who will receive
credits on the film. The camera operators would either be three
steadycam operators, or two steadycams and one tripod camera. The
operators would need to come to a couple of meetings to talk about
lighting, shots and overall vision etc before the event. The lighting
design consultant would need to be involved from two weeks before the
event for several design meetings and lighting plot.

Contact:

htmproduction@gmail.com

or phone Boo on 0423 305 495.