PRG Presents
This Friday at Contact Theatre from 4pm-7pm the Performance Research Group are hosting an informal event sharing new work by artists and researchers from the Performance Research Group and some of our Postgraduate members. This is an exciting opportunity to see new work in development and offer feedback towards its future.
The line-up for our second annual event includes Performance Research Group members: Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk, Kevin Egan, Joe Ward Munrow, Adinda van ‘t Klooster, Neil Mackenzie, and Michael Pinchbeck, as well as our Postgraduate members, Peader Kirk, Meriel Price and Daniel Tierney. The programme is as follows:
4pm-4.15pm: 1812 – Here and Now
Neil Mackenzie
Questioning the triumphalism of the 1812 Overture, this piece is performed by a new performer each time to reflect on the contexts that exist when an artist has a new live performance proposal, and a performance curator facilitates its curation.
4.20pm-4.35pm: Navigating Participation, Protest and Resistance in the making of Reckless Sleepers’ Binary Opposition Project
Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk and Kevin Egan
Reconstructing the opportunities and challenges of the participatory approach, exposing a binary that the performers playfully examine and deconstruct within the presentation.
4.40pm-4.55pm: Cecily
Joe Ward Munrow
C/W – Contains description of near-fatal accident in water.
A work-in-progress horror play that explores what happens when we stop playing with technology and technology instead begins to play with us.
5pm- 5.15pm: Visibility of Possibility
Peader Kirk
A performance lecture envisaging the greenroom venue on Whitworth Street West (1987-2011) as a heterotopic space by interweaving audio testimonies for greenroom’s digital archive, contemporary dance music that would have been played at the greenroom club nights, and theoretical reflection.
5.15pm-5.30pm: Interval
5.30pm-5.45pm: Jumping or Falling
Adinda van’t Klooster, Kevin Egan, Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk
Using the VRoar VR art game, vocal expression directly creates and effects the surreal graphics. By modulating the voice, the performers build a landscape and respond to this both vocally and physically, all the while incorporating the audience in unexpected ways.
5.50pm-6.05pm: The Boarders Between Life and Art
Meriel Elizabeth Price
A lecture performance on failiure, investigating the creative material that
6.10pm-6.25pm: Matchstalks Remastered (work-in-progress)
Michael Pinchbeck and Kevin Egan
The track Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs by pop duo Brian and Michael, which was inspired by the paintings of L.S. Lowry, is translated into a series of theatrical motifs, texts, and images, to explore the visual language of Lowry’s paintings and the song’s lyrical poetry.
6.30pm-6.45pm: 1812- Here and Now
Neil Mackenzie
Questioning the triumphalism of the 1812 overture, this piece is performed by a new performer each time to reflect on the contexts that exist when an artist has a new live performance proposal, and a performance curator facilitates its curation.
6.45pm-7.15pm: Re-Shoot
Daniel Tierney
Inspired by Chris Burden’s 1971 Shoot, this new piece re-enacts the original using performers and a 360-degree digital recording to create an immersive experience of the original scene. This is an immersive VR experience for three people at a time.
C/W Contains references to shooting.
Join us on Friday for this exciting evening of new work!
