Co-created by Frank Camilleri and Judita Vivas, Martyr Red was Icarus Project’s new performance since 2007. Thematically, the initial stimulus for the work was ‘martyrs’, with particular inspiration from Christian iconography. The theme evolved into a narrative-liturgy of temptation, self-doubt, sacrifice, martyrdom, and sublimation – a play of passion that treads the fine line between intense suffering and sexual desire.

Work-in-progress presentations were held at the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) in May 2013. The final piece was performed at the University of Huddersfield in October and MITP in Valletta, Malta in November 2013.