Hamartia
Artist statement
Obdurate names a heightened form of stubbornness. A will set like stone. There is beauty in such resolve: mastery, rigor, and moral conviction often depend on the refusal to give in.
Yet stone does not bend. And when life demands movement, refusal becomes friction. Friction becomes dissonance. Dissonance becomes pain.
I have carried both the strength and the cost of this trait. With this piece, I invite others who have been both punished and rewarded by their own inflexibility to consider a shared question: what do we do when we are the Obdurate one?
Orchestration: mastery is represented by drum-kit performance, beauty by musical composition. The philosophy is carried by spoken word and poetry projected as video. Other forms of obduracy are explored through artistic collaborations.
Video & collaborations
More videos: YouTube channel.
Past performances
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14 Mar 2026Hamartia: album launch
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7 Mar 2026MONA, Lawns Main Stage
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17 Oct 2025Melbourne Fringe, CLUB FRINGE3 Minutes to Save the World
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13 Oct 2025MONA, Container Stage
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1 Oct 2025Melbourne Fringe, Fringe Flavours Night Market (roving)
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Contact
Collaborations, commissions, performance bookings: william.a.troiani@gmail.com.