Sci-Fi & Squeam

10 May 2016

The Next Wave of Feminism: Ground Control

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The Next Wave of Feminism: Ground Control

Episode #320 Tuesday May the 3rd,2016 at 10pm in the JOY studios Melbourne Town. Sonja-The Squeamer-Hammer and two very special guests live in the studio discussing Singularity and Feminism and Science Fiction and Margaret Atwood and Solaris and Moon by Duncan Jones and A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century and much more, and it’s all about a special play they have created called Ground Control.

Ground Control is the live performance feminist play written by Rachel Perks and performed by her, and with director Bridget Balodis, both “fresh” from dress rehearsal, come in to the studio at JOY 94.9 to talk about this amazing show at this years Next Wave Festival on at The Northcote Town Hall until May 14.

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Below: Tarkovsky’s Solaris=Mind Blowing Science Fiction and Philosophy.

About Ground Control :

‘Meet Chris, a tireless young astronaut departing a world where women are killed so frequently it barely rates as news, millions of people are displaced by climate change, and cyborgs are evolving exponentially. Chris is on an interstellar mission to find Earth 2.0 and save all of humanity. No biggie.
After a year of voyaging in artificial stasis in a tiny capsule— her only companions a passive aggressive operating system and a plant called Terry—Chris wakes and tries to call home. But Earth is not at all as she left it.’

Below: Rachel Perks on stage in Ground Control.

‘Part science experiment, part love story, GROUND CONTROL takes our world and fast forwards it 100 years into the future, spitting it back with a grimace. A furious, experimental comedy about violence, technological singularity and long distance relationships, this is a confronting and passionate new performance created by the award-winning team behind ANGRY SEXX. What is it that we are moving toward? Have we already reached the point of no return?’