ThE GAME - THE SHIP OF THESEUS THEATRE COMPANY3.00pm, 4.00pm & 5.00pm – RR3
capacity limited to 10 players per slot – see sign up sheet Two teams, one goal – to win. The Game is an experimental piece of immersive theatre based on various game theories. The action is set in the dystopian future where thirty years from now the planet we know has ceased to exist. The only place that has survived is Bunker 2048 – a place where The Game takes place. The two teams of five neophytes will be trialled and tested to get a chance to build the new world. Be prepared for a challenge that will test your ability to think under pressure and awaken your competitive spirit: The Game will give you an opportunity to see what you are really capable of. Music credit: Feeble Drone. (2017) by Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse SHADOW ANIMA - KATHERINE BORCHSENIUS3.00pm – 8.00pm – RR2 – durational performance/one to one encounters - come & go at leisure
A face to be transformed Shadow Anima invites the audience to share their face with the artist in an exploration of the unconscious. Katherine’s work is grounded in the theories of Carl Jung, in particular exploring the themes of the persona and the shadow. The persona is the mask we wear, the desirable traits we show to other people, and a conscious decision we make. On the other hand, the shadow is where all our undesirable thoughts and feelings are stored, which hide in our unconscious. This is not a process of removing; it is a process of transformation. SYMPTOMS OF ETERNITY - CHARLIE OSBORNE6.45pm – Pinter
Everything that occurs is a reaction to Eternity Eternity pervades into existence on a daily basis and has done so throughout history. This great unknown manifests in the everyday in what can be considered to be ‘Symptoms of Eternity’. These symptoms are Love, Fear and Discovery. Music: Joseph Bishara, Insidous/Insidious: Chapter 2. Video clips: Pexels Videos - https://videos.pexels.com. Audio: Apollo 11 Launch from original NASA Video MAN'S GOT IT BETTER - BrontE KazimFollowing Radiance - Pinter
What I would do if I were a bloke for the day. “Hey Sexy, Can I get your number?” We all know the drill. But wouldn’t it be great to be the guy doing the heckling, just once? Whilst cat-calling isn’t at the forefront of gender issues, we can all agree it’s gross, annoying and violating. It also happens to be a key example of when women are disempowered in the public space. No honey, I’m not your sexy mama. JJ Halberstam stated that “Men get allocated all the fun activities in life.” To an extent, this is probably true. Man’s got it better is an exploratory performance which addresses themes of gender power. Through engaging with drag, the performance aims to find a space in-between the male and female. My non-performative self, in conversation with my male counterpart, Justin Hermouth, satirise the idea that actions are gendered at all. Can I mimic ‘male’ actions to disrupt the narrative and reclaim that power? An experiment in performing gender. Music: DJ Zago and Cory Boone, Gene Kelly et al. With thanks to Eloina Haines, Emily Redpath, Clara Moschetta, Elizabeth Waddell & Stan Martin for their audio contributions Warning: This performance features nudity T1D - CONCHUR WOODS8.00pm – 9.00pm – RR3 – a durational performance – come and go at leisure
My journey with diabetes Conchur has based this performance around his life experience with diabetes. This piece incorporates 15 years of living with Type One Diabetes and depicts the larger impacts of the condition of the family. Conchur creates an environment which allows for education on the condition, using the senses to allow for uncomplicated engagement. “Life with diabetes can be hard work. Diabetes has been likened to a job- not just any job, but one in which you have to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with no holiday, no praise, and no pay. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t stay working in a role like that for very long! But the individual with diabetes doesn’t have the option of working out or giving up; they have to keep ‘working’, day in and day out, for the rest of their life.” Thanks: To my friends and family who participated in and inspired the creation of the piece. |
BUD - JINSUN PARK3.15pm, 3.45pm, 4.15pm & 4.45pm – Film Studio
limited capacity – see sign up sheet I want to let you go and become new me. Everything is uncertain. Nothing is secure. This insecurity becomes anxiety and the anxiety becomes fear. It swallows me endlessly. What is oppressing me to be myself and free? How can I get out of the oppression and self-censorship? How do you overcome your fear? By doing it? Music credits: See Saw (Go Won, Chuu) – Loona, Rosy (feat. Heejin) (Go Won, Olivia Hye) – Loona, Egoist (feat. Jinsoul) (Olivia Hye) – Loona, New (Eve) – Loona Thanks to: Valo Suk for sound arrangement assistance Warning: There will be a strobe lighting in this piece. The audience are encouraged to use flash photography in the beginning of the performance. DISPENSATA BY MARE - NICOLE GARDINER6.00pm – Pinter – 10 mins for exhibition followed by 15 min performance
In our dreams we can live our deepest desires and most haunting creations of the mind. Dispensata by Mare is an immersive exhibition. It takes the audience back to the experience of childhood nightmares, by combining the innocence’s of the subconscious mind with the dark crippling fears that can immerse the soul. It creates a space of unease and mystery. The Pig Family music, this soundtrack alone sets a precedence for childlike temperament intertwined with haunting themes. Video & audio: Nicole Gardiner. Clairvoyant readings: Clemens Brenan. Medium readings: Carole Donavan Warning: darkness, confined space & strobe lighting used. Some themes within the piece might be distressing. RADIANCE - KAT KELAINEFollowing Symptoms of Eternity - Pinter
An invocation to a lost light Clouds gather in the night and day but only those in the light have silver linings. An old hat in the Autumn leaves, finds its way to where Spring begins. As night turns into day, the leaves become blossoms and the Witch of the Wood recovers what she lost. Kat Kelaine presents Radiance, a concert-theatre journey to uncover identities old, new and as yet unseen. Videos: Ken Reid. Photography: Ken Reid & Will Reid. Costume: Elaine Reid. Music: Kat Kelaine DIGGING MY OWN GRAVE - FELIPE MESA KOCH7.45pm & 8.30pm – Film Studio
limited capacity – see sign up sheet "They Think They Own The Truth Because They Own A Checkbook" Come and sit with me, watch a few minutes of my job. A job that has got me going up and down professionally and personally thanks to inflation, terrorism, corruption, drug abuse and illness. It's been thirty years of it and too much has happened, I change too much. I've always tried to do the right thing but as always, that brings more trouble. Doing the right thing where I work is not only digging my own grave but also preparing it for them to spit on it. Music: from Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush (1978), Nothing Else Matters - Metallica (1991) Videos: YouTube, TV Peru and America Television Monologues: Cesar Hildebrandt (1998), Magaly Medina (2014) & Jaime Balyly (2010) CORONATION: THE MUSICAL - CALLUM MCSORLEY9.15pm – Pinter
A coronation like never before; a coronation not fit for a sovereign An intoxicating insight into the workings of a northern, dyslexic brain, fuelled solely on Lucozade and steak pies. However, what happens when that brain is responsible for conducting a coronation? The result is a celebratory spectacle in which quirks become ceremonial rituals and attendants are made to obey the oaths of individualism and self discovery. Music: Celebration - Kool and The Gang. Photo model: Christian Richardson. Graphic designer::Elizabeth Case Warning: Flashing lights will be used through the performance |
INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE BALLOON - SWOOPED PANTENA THEATRE COMPANY3.00pm – 7.00pm – RR2 - a durational performance - come & go at leisure
Metal and latex, what do you expect? An installation piece exploring the complexity in simplicity, through the use of balloons, paper clips and tape. Along with individual tasks, audiences are able to observe the evolution made throughout this installation piece. The space is stripped of all redundancy, ensuring the environment is kept sterile, in order to focus solely on the tasks at hand. We ask audiences to not touch any of the art in the space and warn that popping of balloons are imminent. Music credit: Feeble Drone. (2017) by Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse BURNT MATTER - ROSALIE SMITH4.30pm – 5.30pm – RR3 – durational performance – limited to 6 people in the space at a time
Burnt black. Invisible black in the dark. Visible blackness of the dark. Dark black and darkest black. Black that deposits black. Still black and disturbed black. The post-burning world exists in blackness. Black is the colour of coal. Black is the colour of absence. Absence is all that is left in a post-burning world. Indistinguishable amongst the burnt blackness, a piece of burnt matter is alive; moving, searching, rediscovering. LEAVING NARNIA - CONOR BURKEFollowing from 20-18-1-16-16-5-4 - Pinter
A one-man performance about being yourself, and everything that comes with it. James Michael O' Sullivan is about to tell his parents that he is gay. Quite frankly, he is as terrified as a turkey in November. Wondering how he ended up at this point in his life, he reflects on all of the situations he found himself in that triggered his decision to be honest with his family. Join James on his funny and often touching journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance and most importantly, self-defence as experienced through the words of his personal diary. Written & performed by Conor Burke I'M FINE THANK YOU - LEONTINA KATONA8.45pm – Arts One Lecture Theatre
We need to talk about the romanticisation of mental illnesses. Shall we begin? Why is it acceptable to exploit mentally ill people by aestheticising their conditions for entertainment? This is about how the disordered state is portrayed. This is about what the truth is. Video Credits: Girl, Interrupted, dir. by James Mangold (Columbia Pictures, 1999). It’s Kind of a Funny Story, dir. by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Focus Features, 2010). Melancholia, dir. by Lars von Trier (Nordisk Film, Les films du losange, Concorde Filmverleih, 2011). Psycho, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock (Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures, 1960). Silver Linings Playbook, dir. by David O. Russel (The Weinstein Company, 2012). Split, dir. by m. Night Shyamalan (Universal Pictures, 2016). The Visit, dir. by M. Night Shyamalan (Universal Pictures, 2015)…and several images from the hotbed of mental illness culture, tumblr Warning: This performance contains images of depressive nature, self-harm, as well as mentions of suicide that some viewers may find disturbing. THE STOP - BELISA BRANCAS9.00pm – Pinter
You grab a beer, sit on a chair in your garden and close your eyes. You taste that beer and it tastes like anywhere in the world The Stop is a physical exploration of the nomadic experience, borders and restricted places. By placing a performer in a restricted area onstage with limited resources the performer will both attempt to conquer that space and go beyond it. The project aims to raise questions of entitlement to a home, place and identity. Participant: Elizabeth Adejimi. Video: Belisa Branças. Music: Take Five composed by Paul Desmond & originally recorded by Dave Brubeck Quartet |
NOMAD CREATIVE STUDIOS - ELIE BOUAKAZE-KHAN4.00pm – 8.00pm – Film Studio - limited capacity at any one time
A musical experiment in artistry, success, and authorship Join Elie Bouakaze-Khan in a process of musical experimentation, as he sets himself the challenge of writing a fully composed piece of music in the span of four hours! Audience’s participation will have an implicit effect on the piece’s final form, and the piece will be sent to all members who participate. THIS IS NOT A PERFORMANCE - MAX Lyddon KNIGHT7.00pm – 9.00pm – RR3 – a durational performance – come & go at leisureJoin him for a round or two, but don’t feel like you have to stay.
This is NOT a performance is a boxing match between the boy, and the fears of what he will become. Join him for a round or two, but don’t feel like you have to stay. If you don’t enjoy the fight its fine, there is always the elephants in the room. 20-18-1-16-16-5-4 - Chris DHANjal7.30pm – Pinter
Wake Up. He’s texted. Exercise. You reply. Outfits. He’s demanded. Work. You comply. Dinner. He hides. Midnight. You question. Ringing. He declines. Exposed. You we’re right. What is it about the online world that makes it so easy to rely on? Do we ever feel safe in a place that is constructed from codes and processors? The world of technology allows society new forms of communication and shows an advancement in the human race. However, technology can be seen to prohibit our ability to understand each other. Hiding behind the mask that takes the form of a screen and typed messages, we lose our sense of self and deter our relationship with each other as humans by restricting our chances of engaging in physical contact or communicating through movement and expression. Is it surely not time for us to take steps backward to remind us of this importance of the language of human touch? Visual and Lighting Effects: Jules Deering and Tom Wilson for Visual Effects Additional visuals sourced from giphy.com Home videos sourced by Chris Dhanjal Music and sounds: Artist, Song Title. 2814 - 新宿ゴールデン街- Shinjuku Golden Street Waterfront Dining x 猫 シ Corp. - Rock Wit’cha death's dynamic shroud.wmv -- GIRL ON THE INTERNET 18 Carat Affair - Discovery Annie - Anthonio (Berlin Breakdown Version) Waves Crashing On Distant Shores of Time - Cosmic Cycler - Local Horizon t e l e p a t h テレパシ ー 能力者 - アトラクション Eyeliner - Homo Electronicus Macross 82-99, Roman - I Miss You (feat. Roman) Additional Sound Effects sourced by Chris Dhanjal Warning: there are flashing projected images in this piece LICK MY BUSH AND CALL ME A LADY- ELOINA HAINESFollowing Leaving Narnia - Pinter
Saving the Planet: One Bush at a Time There is a 0.2second adjustment period when you look at my armpit. Even if you don’t know it happens, it happens. Maybe I’m imagining it. But why would I imagine it? Because I’ve been told what I’m doing is wrong. Because we are told that simply leaving our bodies to work for themselves is wrong. It sounds wrong that that’s wrong, right? Or wrong? Right. My luscious bushy rainforest is more ladylike than any deforestation project down there. My swelling, brimming breastmilk is more ladylike than your neat and bouncy student-goes-to-the-gym tits. My gushing, cussing menstrual blood and pains is more ladylike than your tampon concealed in your sleeve as you skirt off to the toilet praying that nobody knows. Praying that nobody sees the tiny little ball of cotton you are about to put in you. Praying that there’s no blood on your topshop jeans. Praying that your body wasn’t doing its job right now. BECAUSE GOD FORBID YOU ASKED FOR A TAMPON OUTLOUD IN FRONT OF THE LADIES AND THEIR GENTLEMEN FRIENDS. BECAUSE GOD FORBID GOD MADE YOUR BODY A BLOODY CYCLE TO OFFER YOU MAN CHILDREN…It’s un-ladylike. If a hair on a lady’s armpit, a mother nourishing her child, or the mention of the cycle which bears life makes you come over all queasy then please, do me a favour and walk straight out of that door and fuck off because it’s about to get a whole lot worse for you my man/pretend-‘lady’ friend. Warning: An Uncensored and De-robed Female Body Get over it. MADGE THE VIRGIN: BLASPHEMINIST - HANNAH BURKEFollowing from The Stop - Pinter
Leaky, squirty, dirty and holey … I mean Holy. A woman’s body is the subject of much horror in the bible. Whilst the blood of Christ is a sacrament; worshipped and revered, period blood gets a rather different treatment. A menstruating woman is labelled as dirty, so dirty, that anything she touches (including people or furniture) will become contaminated and ‘unclean’ for seven days. Well, according to Leviticus anyway. In this performance, I aim to un-sanctify the sacred, destabilize the symbolic and indulge in the carnal. This show is about exposing the hypocrisy surrounding the bodies of women in religion and the de-stigmatization of menstruation. I call into question the worship of a Virgin, which contributes to a legacy of male sexual fantasies around a bodily contradiction; the ‘Virgin Whore’. I wish to free the silent, passive and disempowered figure of the Virgin Mary and present Madge, the bad-ass bleedin’ holy mother. She’s kicking off – Blaspheminist style. Assistance: The heavenly bodies of Kyle Murphy and Eloina Haines. Music: Craig Armstrong O Verona from Romeo+Juliet Warning: This performance contains nudity, explicit imagery and themes people might find disturbing or offensive. |