Mitch Harvey is the inaugural recipient of Co3’s Pathways Program (supported by The Wright Burt Foundation) which facilitates artists to find the Yellow Brick Road to personal creative endeavours. As a founding artist of Co3 in 2015, Harvey’s travels have led him to the creation of his own company and its first production, MindCon, a 50-minute solo work, in which he performs.
MindCon is set in a dystopian world and the audience is part of it, standing around amongst the noise, haze and revolving lighting, to watch what happens as power fluctuates and insecurity peppers the space around them.
Co3 Contemporary Dance presents MindCon by Mitch Harvey Company. Photo © Matsu Photography
The setting in the disused, vast European Foods Warehouse is a superb frame for this dystopian world. With a silver foil-clad ceiling some ten metres above, a foggy, gloomy atmosphere, stone totemic structures, a sprawling grey concrete floor and roaming spotlights, you feel as though imprisoned in a gulag where you’re one of the many defeated conformists and Harvey is the maverick, suffering alone in this post-apocalyptic landscape aptly created by designer Jackson Harvey.
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