The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open For Inspection embraces contemporary ideas concerning the development of our primary living space, the suburban house. The videos and the performance event deal with the following concepts;

• First, the notion that the suburbs are constantly being overwritten in the name of progress. Swathes of suburbia get obliterated and transformed into sites of impermanence releasing the memories of past lives until the next generation of residents move in, make their own homes, fill them with life then leave, continuing the cycle;
• Second, the idea that the suburban house is a metaphor for the Australian imaginary, its psychological texture imbued with the netherworld of the desert, the ephemeral space of suburban creep and the liminal nature of coastal living; and
• Third, that the centrality of the suburban home to the Australian identity is no longer sustainable given that rising mortgages and interest rates drive the Dream of Home Ownership out-of-reach for the ‘ordinary Australian’.

Encompassing these views is the frame that Australian suburbia is a mediated otherworld, a no-man’s land in which representation never reflects reality, where past and present co-exist and the future is a wrecking ball.

concept/ creation David Pledger, sound design Lawrence Harvey, lighting Niklas Pajanti, DOP and Photography Michael Williams, assistant DOP Rocco Fasano, film edit Mark Atkin, Greg Ferris, Pete Worland, project management Lydia Teychenne, Kelly Harrington, company dramaturg Peter Eckersall, performers Todd MacDonald, Roslyn Oades, Tony Briggs, Daniela Farinacci, Shahin Shafaei, Yumi Umiumare, Tamara Saulwick, Andrew Meehan, sound installation Hugh Marman, lighting installation Johnboy Davidson, website designer Alex Gibson, online video artist Jarrod Factor, thank you to Lorraine May and all at Central Property, Vicky Pollard, RMIT University, City of Kingston, Rob Pledger, Judith Stellato Pledger, Elise McCredie, SIAL Sound Studios, Optical Audio, Aretha Briggs, Olivia Crang and to all who left a memory.

NYID
http://www.notyet.com.au/

not yet it’s difficult (NYID) is a Melbourne-based international arts company that collaborates on the production of interdisciplinary projects under the artistic direction of David Pledger. Founded in 1995 by Pledger, Peter Eckersall and Paul Jackson, the company has produced 40 local, national and international projects including original performance events, play productions, public space projects, television and screen-based installations.

The Meaning of Moorabbin is Open For Inspection is the company’s final project in their 2008 Program which constitutes the company’s usual, unusual eclectic mix of theatre, installation, new technologies and sport and includes the much-publicised Alfred Deakin Lecture, Running Man, in June, and the international collaboration with Korea’s Wuturi Theatre, strangeland, which opens the Seoul Performing Arts Festival on September 18.