The Splendid Anomaly: Solo Performance > debuts at ARTS HOUSE in Melbourne, August 2024.

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Another global crisis looms. Ahmarnya is leaking. Again. Using live drawing, animation and sound she examines the various ways that astronomical and cellular life has responded to disruption and change.

 

As both her own and the Earth’s systems rapidly collapse, Ahmarnya checks herself into the emergency department of a local hospital. Quarantined inside a specimen display box and in consultation with her brother, her mother and an overwhelmed medical team, she begins to write and draw herself into and out of a world that was never made with her in mind. Along the way, she discovers parallels between her own complex medical history and the universe’s vast cosmological records. Ahmarnya starts to suspect that it might never have been a case of ‘the survival of the fittest’. Or the most contained. That perhaps at the unknowable heart of evolution's creation story, and our own survival, lies a messier and more imperfect possibility - the splendid anomaly

 
Ahmarnya, in collaboration with Arts House, Susie Dee, Kelly Ryall, Rhian Hinkley, Romanie Harper and Richard Vabre have been developing this multidisciplinary solo performance since 2018. The Splendid Anomaly will debut its first season at Arts House in Melbourne from 26^th – 31^st August 2024.