Bad Productions
冇得睇 Nothing to See Here
볼 것이 없다
Let your curiosity guide you to 지하 Underground, a pop-up Korean speakeasy that has taken root in a forgotten corner of the city. Drink the night away with the bar’s eccentric proprietor, as a tale of love transcending culture, language and gender unfolds to rhythms created by his staff, a ragtag crew of musicians. Indulge in a mix of live music and magical storytelling amidst a transitory world, where every hour is happy hour.
Post-show, 지하 Underground’s bar stays open, bursting with performances by special friends and lovers.
Originally developed and presented by Motherboard Productions.
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지하 Underground
At once epic and incredibly personal, Deluge: 물의기억 explores what happens to the psyche and physicality of the human body when it is confronted with the most destructive of nature’s forces. Through subtle transformation, explosive choreography, and dynamic vocalisation, the work explores the deep sorrow and sublime ecstasy that are hallmarks of Korean culture, refracted through an Australian lens that evokes the contradictory nature of our relationship with water – from droughts to flooding plains.
Originally developed and presented by Motherboard Productions.
Deluge: 물의기억
Pull up a cheap plastic stool at The 떡볶이 Box (The Dokboki Box) and hear the cook sing her story as you share a Korean snack with the stranger next to you. Who knew we all had so much in common? This collaboration serves up live music and performance inside a street side snack stall all the way from Seoul. Questions are raised and rules are re-written as Younghee reveals a story about being good, and being bad, in order to survive in this world.
The 떡볶이 Box (The Dokboki Box)
Most Koreans can recite Shimchong’s tale… Her mother died in childbirth, her father is blind, and she sacrifices herself to the Dragon King – the god under the sea – in order to restore her father’s sight. Sent back to the surface in a lotus flower, her destiny is to become queen.
What if Shimchong was reborn in Australia, 2016; a young woman burning with revolutionary desire? Join us on this fast-paced, multilingual romp as Shimchong traipses through an Australia that seems to have gone to the dogs.
This dark, political, and often hilarious retelling combines contemporary pop and traditional Korean music with physical theatre in an event that is as uniquely Australian as it is Korean.
Originally developed and presented by Motherboard Productions.
심청 ⟨Shimchong⟩: Daughter Overboard!
A digital art book, and universally accessible exhibition created in 2020 by a group of artists in Chuncheon, South Korea.
Hello Project
In 2011, 지하 Underground opened its doors, transforming the Metro Arts Basement into a tropical themed queer junkbar caught between Brisbane and Seoul.
In Remember Underground old friends Younghee Park, Jeremy Neideck, Nathan Stoneham, and M’ck McKeague reunite to perform songs from the original show in an intimate live music event, and share some of the real-life stories that inspired the original performance.
Unplugged and revealing, Remember Underground revisits some of the questions that remain unanswered… Can we reconnect after so long? Do we ever fall out of love?
Remember Underground
冇得睇 / Nothing to See Here / 볼 것이 없다 is a series of workshops, performances and exhibitions made in collaboration with "Elephants laugh" (Korea) and members of blind communities. Art & new connections are experienced and described, not displayed.