Ron Seeto is an independent Brisbane based contemporary performance maker and performer. Ron will present ‘Breach’ as part of Brisbane Emerging Art Festival 2013.

You are trained to kill. Passionately at times but also dispassionately. Aggression is now a switch to flicked. Conflict is the job you signed up for and now you are one of the very few individuals gifted with the legal responsibility of killing. You are an arbiter of death. You may fight and you may kill. Until your time is up that is and then you are back in society proper. You are no longer an arbiter but death does not leave you. How can it?

Breach is a hybridised (theatre+dance+stage combat) performance work investigating contemporary military training techniques and the field of killology - the study of the psychological and physiological effects of killing and combat on the human psyche. How does the military turn well adjusted violence-fearing civilians into soldiers ready to fight and possibly die or kill for their country? Inspired by the director’s (Ron Seeto) own personal experience in the Australian Infantry and verbatim accounts from soldiers around the world, Breach asks the age old question: Could you kill someone?

Breach is a first development showing and may contain disturbing imagery.

Image: Inter/nality (2011)