“This is our (every) moment in the spotlight. We hope we are interesting enough, beautiful enough, enough of enough.”

In Star******s, primary school teacher Laura Caesar and Sydney artist Malcolm Whittaker raise their own relationship to celebrity status by reading from the personal diaries that document their ten years together.

Every movement. Every moment. Together and apart. Broken down and made public. Over the four hours of the durational performance the audience can come and go as they please, as stories continually unfold and everyday narratives undergo a seemingly never-ending process of construction and reconstruction.

As each diary page is read it is sculpted into a miniature papier-mâché representation of a pair of lovers – lovers from a seemingly infinite catalogue, conjured in makeshift caricature and caught in an ever-failing quest for lasting stability and contingency.

Star******s is about the construction and consumption of relationships by media and fairytale, and in turn the consumption of these relationships by the public. It’s about the great suburban dream of fame and fortune and love – and finding it poetically in the banal and everyday