Revival! CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) is a three-day public program of performances, talks, screenings and discussions that take as their starting point the celebrated 2004 performance work CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) by version 1.0. 

CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) by version 1.0 was hailed by the Bulletin as “a startling, highly kinetic, blackly comic and deeply provocative work of theatre” and the Sydney Morning Herald as a “passionate, often humorous, and ultimately disturbing deconstruction of politicians at work”, CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) explores the so-called ‘children overboard’ scandal, Australia’s cruelty towards refugees and the politicisation of the public service.

Revival! CMI will reopen public conversations around art and activism, specifically those debates surrounding the continuing hard-line ‘border protection’ strategies now enthusiastically adopted by both sides of Australian politics.

Timed to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of its Performance Space premiere, Revival! CMI will feature excerpts from the original performance, talks, panels, exhibitions, plus four original short creative responses to CMI from artists with asylum seeker backgrounds.