Up Close with Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont

About Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont
Both born 1981 in Perth, Australia
Both live and work in Perth

Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont are collaborative multidisciplinary artists, producers and performers whose work encompasses photography, performance, choreography, film, installation, theatre and design. This new work, Lament of the Argentine Military (2010), is the result of research into Mata Dupont’s family history and is based on the country’s turbulent past. A singing narrator, modelled on the patron saint of Argentina, complements a large cast representing the Argentinean military. The narrator and ensemble allude to the close relation between the Catholic Church and successive military dictatorships. Gill and Mata Dupont, working with composer Ash Gibson Greig and writer/artist Thea Costantino, include tango, music theatre and martial formations in the work, presented here as a video and suite of photographs.