McKenzie, V. (2011). Complications. dot dot dash 7, 56-58. ‘Complications’ plays with the several meanings of the word to investigate unstable identity in the modern subject. With privileged access to interiority and psychology that is akin to thought, this fiction directly engages with mistaken identity …
McKenzie, Vahri (2019). Love You, Stranger performance text, BANG! BANG! Perth, Australia: The Blue Room Theatre. A performance text about the true crime stories of three Australian women accompanying a work of contemporary dance choreographed by Shona Erskine. It explores the social and cultural attitudes …
McKenzie, Vahri (2019). The Other Writing Group: an embodied workshop, TEXT Special Issue 57: Peripheral Visions. New insights and approaches to creative activity grounded in embodiment have the potential to enhance creative writing practices by focusing on the embodied dimensions of writing, such as undertaking …
McKenzie, Vahri. (2018). Bakkhai: Freedom and Control Curatorial Essay. Bunbury, WA: Maker + Co and Edith Cowan University. An exhibition of work developed for BREC’s 2018 stage show seen in a gallery context that illustrates the collective creativity of the artists, all graduates of ECU’s …
McKenzie, Vahri. (2018). Bakkhai Director’s Notes. Bunbury, WA: Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre. Bakkhai was one of Euripides’ final plays and is concerned with two apparently opposed sides of human nature, the rational and the instinctive. When these collide, in the forms of the rigid young …