“THUNDERBLOOM the musical”
HOSSEI
16 Sept → 16 Sept 2023
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.
Saturday 16 September, 2 → 3pm @ West Space, Collingwood Yards
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
Photography by Kenneth Suico. Highlights captured on video by Willan Octave-Emile
HOSSEI (b. 1985, Tehran) 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.