Bundanon

Doppelgangster is an experimental performance company based between Australia and the UK. Founded in 2015 they’re recognised for their iconoclastic, intellectual, and political works – often responding to themes of climate and class crises.

Doppelgangster is led by experimental performance artist Tobias Manderson-Galvin and site-specific and participatory performance expert Dr Tom Payne. Current projects range from work for unconventional spaces, intimate face-to-face encounters, and large-scale spectacles

Doppelgangster’s performances have been presented in shipping containers, carparks, lane-ways, garages, a white-box galleries, lecture theatres, town halls, a converted barn/cider mill, a cinema, a lawn bowls club, old high school offices, a fetish club, the banks of a river, a back veranda, a kitchen, a subterranean railway vault, a former boot factory, Paris’ Grande Palais, and the occasional theatre.

“A cultural response to climate change, forced migration, and globalisation” – IETM’S Fresh Perspectives IV: Art For The Planet’s Sake

“Theatrical Saboteurs” – The Age

IN RESIDENCE AT BUNDANON

Doppelgangster co-director Tobias Manderson-Galvin and sound engineer and composer Pat Fielding further developed the book and score for ‘Hostage in Babylon’ an opera for the 500-year anniversary of the German Peasants’ Revolt (1524-25). The pair were also able to begin planning on two other live performance projects ‘The Rich Are Good People Deep Down’ a site-specific work about the crash of the Oceangate Titan, and ‘The Anarchy (1138-53)’ an historical psychedelic folk-horror.