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Presented with Arts House Branch Nebula High Performance Packing Tape Inventive and risk-taking. — REALTIME 40 With every project we risk things blowing up in our faces. For Branch Nebula, that’s just the beginning. High Performance Packing Tape is the OH&S nightmare that transforms everyday stationery and office consumables into the infrastructure of one person’s physical ruin. Performer Lee Wilson scales collapsing towers, hangs precariously from bridges unable to carry his weight and asks more of cheap materials than they’re ever able to give. Pivoting deftly between visceral terror and the ridiculous, this masterclass in contemporary performance needles at our desire for self-preservation and material wellbeing with a series of scenarios that each ratchet up the tension another notch. The sterile language of workplace safety, risk assessment and best practice is thrown to the wind, and though the suspense might be killing you, it’s Wilson’s neck that’s on the line. Meat Market M T OCT 7 8 14 15 W 2 9 16 T 3 10 17 F 4 11 18 S 5 12 19 Wed—Sat 8.30pm Sun 7pm 1 hr no interval  AUDIO-DESCRIPTION Audio Described Fri 4 October Tickets $39 Eligible for Transaction fees may apply festival.melbourne Arts House 03 9322 3720 S 6 13 20