In the organizer's words:

Tim Spooner [UK], Terrapin Puppet Theatre [AUS]

Non-verbal performance, suitable for international guests

Matter Era is an international collaboration between the Tasmanian theater company Terrapin and the British artist Tim Spooner.

The installation performance is an experimental puppet show that creates a living world without people.

As a radical ode to the physical, Matter Era stages the speculative evolution of post-human life. Material life forms evolve and interact with each other, constantly reconnecting and separating to form new beings. While four invisible performers continuously animate the objects during the performance, the audience can come and go and move around the space to view the work from all sides.

The life forms eventually coalesce into a strange mass that fills the space and can be viewed as an installation during the remaining opening hours of the space.

• Play: Sam Routledge, Tim Spooner
• Development actors: Scout McDonald, Bella Young