EXTREME UNCTION

GENERATOR projects, residual, July 2016.

'Extreme Unction', is a two-person performance of a series of short texts that manifest anxieties about contemporary material conditions. Bodily, environmental, political, and nutritional panic-attacks-cum-lamentations are recited alongside self-help actions that serve as therapies for the individual body. The work is staged around a purpose-built table that holds a set of bowls containing the materials used in the actions. 'Extreme Unction' performs the tension between communal problems and the individual body, the feeling of being allergic to the world and of powerlessness in the face of it.

Ouellette and Osberg have worked collaboratively on special projects, such as their conjoined dissertation project, 'Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A Series of Exchanges' (2012) and 'Prospecthills', a feature length experimental collaborative film (2015). They work between writing, performance and film, between documentary and narrative fiction. They often link together strings of topics using narrative style and using a reciprocal model of call and response to negotiate their collaborations. Their overlapping interests connect the political and material, expressing the complex intertwining of physical and emotional bonds.