“THUNDERBLOOM: THE MUSICAL”
HOSSEI
16 Sept → 16 Sept 2023
A live performance by HOSSEI, his mum Nahid, the THUNDERS and the BLOOMS! Allow yourself to be swept up in their love-filled journey of emotion, colour, healing and feeling.
HOSSEI presents songs that centre his mother, Nahid. These songs recalibrate the relationship between mother and son, from one that privileges a hierarchy of responsibility, to one of collaborative exploration, curiosity, imagination and discovery.
THUNDERBLOOM celebrates all mothers, particularly those from migrant communities, by giving them a platform and a voice atypical of their perceived place in society.
"I found THUNDERBLOOM to be an ambitious multidisciplinary work of great rigour and warmth. HOSSEI’s works goes beyond representation of identities through humour and song to engage successfully in a complex space of paying homage. This beautiful work speaks to an imaginary which highlights a relationship between migrant mother and first generation child." – Lucreccia Quintanilla
PERFORMERS: Nahid, HOSSEI
THUNDERS: Harri Harding, Maria White, Sidney McMahon, Tom Hungerford, Eugene Choi, Jonny Ellis, Beai Lai
BLOOMS: Lauren Booker, Madika Penrith, Valentina Penkova
Video: Willan Octave-Emile
HOSSEI is a multidisciplinary Australian artist with Persian, Turkish and Russian ancestry. Across performance, voice and choral performance, his practice addresses his heritage, fantasies and feelings, and notions of togetherness and healing. He adopts themes of secrecy, the unconscious, theatricality and mysticism to create surreal scenarios through real and imagined characters. Recently his work has addressed his mother as a subject, entering her psyche and telling her life experiences and stories.
