![Sleep Disorders [2010-2012]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Fool-slider-resize-760x400.png)
Sleep Disorders is a body of work that investigates the pathologisation of sleep through performance research. Image credit: Vahri McKenzie and Hellen Russo, Fool Asleep, in Fringe World Festival 2012. Perth, Australia: The Treasury, 2012. Photograph by Lisa Carrie Goldberg. Fool Asleep is a one-act …
![Telephone [2014]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Telephone-resize-slider-760x400.png)
Telephone is a video installation made for an exhibition of interdisciplinary collaborations shown at Spectrum Project Space. It features four artists presenting personal dating advertisements where relationships between the characters emerge and dissolve. Themes include longing to connect and the possibilities of relationship in the …
![Underscore Alchemy [2013-2014]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/UA-resize-slider-760x400.png)
Underscore Alchemy investigates how artists from disciplines outside the performing arts might engage with Nancy Stark Smith’s framework for researching and engaging in movement improvisation, the Underscore, in order to enhance their creative practices. Inspired by the Underscore, I developed a workshop methodology in which …
![Only the Envelope [2016-2017]](https://www.vahrimckenzie.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/OTE-slider-resize-760x400.png)
Only the Envelope is a live art installation shown in Bunbury Regional Art Galleries’ Archive Room that investigates the ways we share personal information in the public sphere. In this work a ‘scientist’ offered visitors the opportunity to be involved in an ‘experiment’ by viewing …