Their feet did not touch the ground

Their feet did not touch the ground is a live music, performance art, activism mash up by multidisciplinary artist and musician Jazmine Philips

The work takes as its starting point Jazmine’s relationship with Farhad Banish, a detained refugee imprisoned on Manus Island and in Melbourne for the past 9 years.

Audio of Farad is translated into a performance of numbers - time spent imprisoned - the number of deaths in custody - days spent free. 9 years, 108 months, 469 weeks, 3285 days. Time spent imprisoned - time spent sleeping - A phone number - the number of deaths - A hotel room. Time is counted, slips, stretches, becomes plastic, slows and gains pace.

This elegiac and urgent work asks us to sit with the time we have, and what we do with it.

Date: Weds, 15 February
Time: 6.30PM
Location: Main Stage, Basement Theatre
Price: $18 - $39