“THUNDERBLOOM: THE MUSICAL”
HOSSEI
16 Sept → 16 Sept 2023
Gallery

A group of people in white and pink stand amid a smoke machine with jazz hands and chests puffed outward in chorus.
HOSSEI, 'THUNDERBLOOM', performance, 2023, West Space, Collingwood Yards. Photography by Kenneth Suico.

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

A male figure with brown hair and a beard looks into a mirror touching their eyebrow as though applying makeup. The photo is captured from behind them.
A mal figure in a pink suit closes their eyes and spread their arms singing forwardly.
A woman on a purple-tinted stage glares toward an iPad, wearing pink. She is surrounded by a select number of people in white who have their hands on her shoulders. She is squinting dramatically and three figures also in pink lean their heads on her lap, expressionless.
A group of people in white and pink stand amid a smoke machine with jazz hands and chests puffed outward in chorus.
From the perspective of a dark crowd, a woman films the stage that is tinted purple, its figures in the background blurry.
A woman in an orange power suit sits in front of an audience with 4 figures behind her wearing white suits. They are perfoming a musical
From the perspective of a crowd, a woman on a purple-tinted stage glares toward an ipad, wearing pink. She is surrounded by a select number of people in white who have their hands on her shoulders. A conductor in pink holds his arms in the air to the side.
A woman in a crowd leans back holding a phone and filming something. The image is tinted purple.
Two figures are laughing on stage wearing hot pink suits. The lighting is tinted purple. There are silhouettes of crowd figures in the foreground. Behind the two pink figures there are 4 standing people in white suits standing and smiling widely.
A male figure in a pink suit is posing with jazz hands in front of a small crowd and surrounded by three prominent glowing screens. The space is foggy.
A woman in a thick pink suit poses with her hand on a brick balcony, staring outward.
A guy with hair to his shoulders wears a gradient green and white button up shirt and orange sunglasses, posing smiling and gesturing a peace sign. There are 3 people around him smiling and looking at him, two of them holding beers.

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.

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Artist HOSSEI's audio-visual artwork THUNDERBLOOM. Three screens glow with the projected images of performers, bright backgorund colours and captioned lyrics.

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HOSSEI
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