GONER
GONER by MARIKISCRYCRYCRY
“Goner mournfully and violently confronts the sinister themes within marginalisation... Sharpe uses horror to their advantage, mutating, embodying and destroying forms that deviate from the norm, implying how an identity ruptures beneath the load of racism... Goner possesses defiance and grief in equal parts.”
28 September, The Place
The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case.
This work follows this figure on a sensuous, suspense-filled and fearsome choreographic journey into the psychological depths of the Goner’s horror. Lightly touching on the topics of abuse, Caribbean migration, alienation, belonging, addiction, and violence, Goner is utilising the formal tools of solo authorship and the aesthetics of horror to create radical visual culture from the marginalised perspective, and to tease out and establish a Black tradition of horror for the live context. How do we look at culturally specific narratives against a backdrop of thrilling, bloody, and psychological horror?
Who knows...
but there will be blood.
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