Margaret Evokes Wet Courage ECCO
Performance
Pig Melon
Perth, Western Australia
2022
As part of the Heathcote Blue event on 10.12.22, Elina Bry presented a one-night-only performance at Pig Melon in Perth, Australia, embodying Margaret — a scientist teaching English to Pam the dolphin. This surreal and intimate performance was a playful yet poignant exploration of human–nonhuman communication, touching on themes of language, care, and the limits of understanding. The work grew out of Bry’s ongoing collaboration with experimental sound group ECCO (Caroline Hussey, Jack Wansbrough, Simon Weins, and Feronia Wennborg), blending performance, sound, and storytelling into an embodied research practice. The audience was told: You have been blessed with the presence of a scientist. The performance was filmed by Johnny Doan.
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ELINA BRY is French/Finnish, Glasgow based multidisciplinary artist and award-winning filmmaker. They work across video, storytelling and live performance, and is interested at listening to and re-staging the malfunctions of the human body. They are curious about the body as a sentient arena; as a responsive tool and as a protagonist of an everyday drama. By that, they investigate the known, model it and work in collaboration with the instability of their body. It is essential that they don't cause any harm as they want to challenge their body with the everyday, in order to give a stage and witness what is already there.
The thematic undercurrents of ecology and slow travel prominently weave through their artistic endeavours. Through their multidisciplinary approach, they seek to unravel the nuanced interplay between the human form and its environment, exploring the intricacies of the body while maintaining a conscientious connection to ecological and sustainable principles.