Exposure
by Branch Nebula
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'Exposure' (2025), Branch Nebula.
Presented by Dancehouse and RISING as part of the inaugural Australian Dance Biennale
— Two women writhe in pits of domestic detritus.
Tarps down, goggles on and gloves off. Two women in their 50s bathe in deep pits of domestic detritus to investigate the body’s relationship to systems of power.
Slicked with oil and lit by microwave buzz, this ugly-beautiful piece by acclaimed performance artists—Latai Taumoepeau and Mirabelle Wouters—upends endless struggles of everyday expectation.
Steel bedframes dangle and scrape. Toxins ooze and whitegoods clank. In the world of Exposure, the ageing female body is lain bare as a site of force and resilience as the duo submit themselves to an increasingly surreal states of material force and environmental instability.
Performers Latai Taumoepeau, Mirabelle Wouters
Performance Facilitator Lee Wilson
Sound Design Phil Downing
Lighting Design Karen Norris
Production Manager Alejandro Rolandi
Stage Manager Madelaine Osborne
Producer Michaela Coventry
Exposure is commissioned by Vitalstatistix, developed with the support of Creative Australia and Create NSW, and is supported through residencies at Bundanon Trust, Cementa Festival, Adhocracy and Theatre and Performance Studies, the University of Sydney. Branch Nebula is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia and the NSW Government through Create NSW. Exposure is part of the inaugural Australian Dance Biennale, curated and hosted by RISING.
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Branch Nebula is led by founding artists Lee Wilson and Mirabelle Wouters. Wilson has 35 years’ experience performing, directing and choreographing, having trained at the University of Western Sydney’s Theatre Nepean. His credits include Post Arrivalists, Acrobat, and dramaturgy with Nick Power’s dance productions. Wouters is a Belgian/Australian designer, educated in industrial design with 23 years’ experience making work for large-scale outdoor and indoor theatre with her signature use of found space, recycled costume and light. Together they have developed an astonishing body of work that has toured festivals and presentation houses around Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. In 2024 Michaela Coventry joined the Branch Nebula team as company producer. Michaela brings over 25 years’ experience in arts and artist management. She is currently the Director of Sage Arts working with artists and organisations including Jo Lloyd, Matthias Schack-Arnott, Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Branch Nebula. In recent years she has been the Executive Producer of The Substation, Lucy Guerin Inc, Speak Percussion and Megafun and Producer of Marrugeku/Stalker (2004-2005) and of Performance Space in Sydney (2000-2003).
