8/8/8: WORK

At close of play and the end of days, optimisation never ends.

The world of Comic Sans reply-alls is taken offline in this experimental marathon performance by artists Harriet Gillies and Marcus McKenzie.

Clock-in with an expert team of life coach gurus, microdosing tech-bros, multi-level marketing scammers, and an intern paid entirely in exposure for this ridiculous capitalist phantasm. As the performance spills from a CAPTCHA-esque maze of queues and QR codes and into an absurd corporate seminar, bodies will rise en masse to break free from cubicles and bring to life the Casual Friday horrors of human production lines and relentless consumption.

8/8/8: WORK is the first in a series of three performance works examining the industrialised split of our lives into neat, equal slivers of work, rest and play.

Created by Harriet Gillies and Marcus McKenzie

Creators and Performers: Eugene Choi, Mish Grigor, Rebecca Jensen, Lilian Steiner and Peter Paltos
Producer: Thom Smyth (Unfunded Empathy).
Director: Lynsey Peisinger
Dramaturg: Lara Thoms
Production Design: Romanie Harper
Lighting Design: Additive Lighting
Composer Musician: Nina Buchanan
Parafictional Trust Engineer: Derrick Duan
Digital Associate: Xanthe Dobbie
Production Manager: Nick Glen
Stage Manager: Olivia Walker
Assistant Stage Manager: Daniel Story
Associates: Arben Dzika, Ava Campbell, Brooke Arblaster, Jade Prasad, Derrick Duan, Dominic Weintraub, Ellen Davis, Emma McManus, Flick, Gabriella Imrichova and Mira Oosterweghel
Interns: Zack Lewin and Grace McPherson
Office Sustenance and Catering: Long Prawn

Commissioned by Rising Festival and selected for development in the Common Rooms initiative at Trades Hall and the Adhocracy Artist Lab by Vitalstatistix

Performed at Schoolhouse Studios Coburg as part of Rising festival 2022