2-Dimensional Life of Her

Fleur Elise Noble

  • A scene from <2-Dimensional Life of Her>, in black and white. Palm-sized puppets hang on fine strings inside a small room built from white paper, and a woman leans in from the left to steady one of them with her hand. Torn scraps of paper are strewn across the floor.
  • A scene from <2-Dimensional Life of Her>. A black-and-white film is projected onto a white screen at the left of the darkened stage, showing a woman with a cloth wrapped around her head looking out beside a window. At the right, footage of orange flames plays across the paper set, with a human figure cut from black paper standing in front of it. Scraps of paper cover the floor.
  • A scene from <2-Dimensional Life of Her>. In a dim room, a woman in a polka-dot dress with a white cloth around her head grips a long pole in both hands and looks straight ahead. A window and a framed picture hang on the wall behind her, with the shadow of another figure at the window. Bottles and objects rest on a workbench in the foreground.
  • A scene from <2-Dimensional Life of Her>. At the right of the darkened stage, a woman with a white cloth around her head holds a pole in one hand and unfurls a large sheet of paper printed with a human figure in the other. Black silhouettes of several people and one large shadow are projected onto the white cloth behind her, and paper scraps litter the floor.
  • A scene from <2-Dimensional Life of Her>, in black-and-white tones. A curtained window and a workbench of laboratory equipment stand at the left; a framed picture and a fireplace are set into the wall at the centre. At the right, a woman in a dress and headscarf stands beside a white wooden chair, facing front. The whole room appears to be built from paper.

 

  • Director Fleur Elise Noble
  • Genre Theater
  • Date 10.10.Sat 7:30pm 10.11.Sun 2pm, 6pm
  • Accessibility Non-verbal
  • Rating 16 and above
  • Venue SFAC Theater QUAD
  • Duration 45 min.
  • Premiere 2024 Tangente St. Pölten, Austria
  • Tickets 40,000 won

 

Introduction

<2-Dimensional Life of Her> is a performance work made of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper.

Set in an artist’s studio, a richly imagined parallel world is awoken where everything that was thought to be still or flat becomes something else. Her drawings reproduce themselves, drift between surfaces and move in and out of three dimensions. Tensions build between surfaces and realities, as the act of creation separates itself from the artist responsible for its beginnings. She loses control of her creations and absolutely anything becomes possible…

Winner of the 2010 Greenroom Award for Video Design and Best in Show at the 2008 Brisbane Festival (Under the Radar), <2-Dimensional Life of Her> is an illusionary, captivating and cheeky work suitable for ages 4 and above.

Director

Fleur Elise Noble

Fleur Elise Noble has been described as a ‘Polymath’ who roams fearlessly between art-forms. She is a multi-dimensional artist interested in the performative possibilities of her creations. Fleur was awarded scholarships from art schools in Adelaide and New York, where she studied drawing, painting, and sculpture. She went onto equip herself with an arsenal of creative forces, including puppetry, design, animation, film, projection mapping, performance, dance and writing.

Best known for her unique visual performances, she has been invited to perform at over 50 arts venues and festivals around the world, where her works became the catalyst for deep reflection and heated debate. Fleur’s major solo productions <2-Dimensional Life of Her> and <ROOMAN> were created over five-year periods, after which they toured extensively. <2-Dimensional Life of Her> represented Australia at the World Congress of Theatre for Young People in 2011 and was awarded the 2013 Bessie (New York Dance and Theatre Award) for most Outstanding Visual Design.

Most recently Fleur co-created, co-designed and performed in Windmill Theatre Company’s <Creation Creation>, which premiered at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 2021, before going on to perform at the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts Centre, and State Theatre Centre of WA. Fleur has worked on countless other creative arts and community projects. She was a workshop facilitator and media producer on SharingStories’ Digital Storytelling Workshops for 7 years, and the program co-ordinator of <Same Like Yesterday>, a three-dimensional projected installation developed with the Adnyamathanha Community of the Flinders Rangers, presented as a part of the 2019 DreamBIG Children's Festival.

Fleur is currently a PhD Candidate at Flinders University, where she is researching new ways to talk about digital addiction and persuasive technology with young people. She believes in the power of creativity to make complex ideas accessible and engaging.

Credits
  • Concept, Director, Set Design and PerformerFleur Elise Noble
  • Production Operator, Stage ManagerNiccolo Gallio
  • PerformerLouise Harte
  • ProducerInsite Arts
Fleur Elise Noble

  • Fleur Elise Noble’s <2-Dimensional Life of Her> is a performative screen work par excellence… An essay on creativity, control, manipulation and ways of seeing, <2-Dimensional Life of Her> is witty, technically deft and engrossing, offering more dimensions than its bigger festival counterparts.
    — Keith Gallasch, Real Time (February 2011)
  • …brilliant provocative…stunning…
    — The Herald, Scotland (March 2010)