Next Wednesday (12 October) at 4pm
Studio Space in the Armstrong Building (ARMB.G.13).
The piece is a work in progress and being shown as part of the Newcastle University Performance Research Network Seminar series. Everyone is very welcome to attend.
I have found myself the custodian of a collection of performance scores. They were written by over 70 workshop participants during the lockdown in early 2021. The performance will share material from the collection and consider its legacy. I work with performance, often using texts, video fragments and choreographies composed as live collages of material. At the heart of this is an interest in how knowledge and meaning are generated through relationships with others. My work is often collaborative and influenced by creative approaches to working together from experimental theatre, contemporary dance and music.
Since 2016, I have self-published the zine TALKER for which I interview performance- makers about their process. In order to present these discussions in a structurally innovative way that reflects the nimble, performative exchange of verbal discourse, I ensure they keep the fluid movement of conversation once edited and printed. Issue #1 featured artist, curator, writer and educator Ian White and subsequent issues publish interviews with Kate Valk of the Wooster Group, playwright Richard Maxwell, artists Sue Tompkins, Dora García, Paul Maheke, and choreographer Jo Fong. I have also produced an issue that published an in-conversation event between Spalding Gray and Kathy Acker from 1987. The most recent issues feature conversations with artists Barby Asante, Gustav Metzger and Miranda July.
