an experimental performance piece, co-written, co-produced, and performed by teenagers for exhibition in the festival market.
Created by Davina Wright and Billie Rankin THNX 4 NOTHING explored local teenagers’ ideas of adulthood and adults alike, directly involving young people in the script development, direction and performance.
These young creatives compared their experience in ostracised identities to the lifestyle of the suburban adult: something they likely will never experience.
A range of bureaucratic processes were also developed to empower young participants in understanding the arts industry and to ensure equity within division of labour, payment, and creative autonomy. These processes aimed to challenge the extractive norms of youth art works wherein youth participants' ideas and bodies are used, only receiving compensation through "experience and involvement in the arts" whilst adult artists and companies profit from their labour.
THNX
4
NOTHING
"as a young queer individual living with disability I observe the migration from young adult to suburban adult. I am considered counter cultural whether I want to be or not. there are people in my peer group who are counter-cultural by choice. They have the option to become the picturesque household that I will only ever walk past."
