Gut Feeling
A collaboration between David Murphy and Born in a Taxi.
Gut Feeling is an immersive, interactive journey through the human digestive system. Participants are assigned to different food groups, before being “ingested” into a massive, anatomically correct (well, nearly), inflatable, human digestive tract.
The “food" is guided through the digestive process, by the Garrulous Gut Guides. They demonstrate how miraculous process that turns food into our energy, from the inside! The ‘food’ will be required to do some physical theatre, experience a dynamic digestive soundscape and watch real bacteria projected onto the stomach lining. Young artists can then add to the bacteria gallery (with textas).
Of course what goes in must also come out. Each child’s exit is marked with carefully-crafted sound effects.
Fascinating. Fun. Facts & Farts!
“This performance was not only hysterically funny, a bit yucky at times, and pretty warm, it was also a wonderful lesson in the human body, which I know my 8 ¬year¬ old learnt a lot from. To be able to get inside the gut, with two hilarious ‘Gut Guides’ is by far the best way to learn, and the Q & A session afterwards just went on to prove how awesome an experience this was.
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“How awesome to have the opportunity to be turned into poo. No! I mean... how awesome that our children can explore their creativity and share unique artistic experiences with professional artists, in such a wonderful, up close and personal space?
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