I THINK THINGS ARE PRECIOUS

McKenzie, Vahri. (2023). I think things are precious. Axon: Creative Explorations Text|Page|Art 13 (1). DOI: 10.54375/001/k4vz5gp93t A work of expanded short fiction that tells a story about a kid set the task of writing one hundred lines as a punishment. It responds to Emmett Williams’s 

Love You, Stranger

McKenzie, Vahri (2019). Love You, Stranger performance text, BANG! BANG! Perth, Australia: The Blue Room Theatre. A performance text about the true crime stories of three Australian women accompanying a work of contemporary dance choreographed by Shona Erskine. It explores the social and cultural attitudes 

Only the Envelope

McKenzie, Vahri (2016). Only the Envelope consent script. Bunbury, Australia: Bunbury Regional Art Galleries. In a scripted delivery designed to win ‘informed consent’, a ‘scientist’ offered visitors the opportunity to be involved in an ‘experiment’ by viewing an original video while wearing an eye-tracking device. 

Love You, Stranger

McKenzie, Vahri (2015). Love You, Stranger performance text, Short Cuts 2015. Perth, Australia: Strut Dance. A performance text about the true crime stories of three Australian women accompanying a work of contemporary dance choreographed by Shona Erskine. It explores the social and cultural attitudes that 

Telephone

McKenzie, Vahri (2014). Telephone performance text, inConversation. Perth, Australia: Spectrum Project Space. A cloze script designed for an interdisciplinary collaboration of four artists who tailored the script to perform personal dating advertisements in a video installation. Relationships between the characters emerge and dissolve; themes include