"If time is running out, what is the point of theatre?" An intensive weekend workshop for performers, designers and directors led by John Fox and Sue Gill of Dead Good Guides, the company that has picked up where Welfare State International (WSI) left off. Working between ritual and theatre, the workshop will look at notions of TIME and liminal space, devising and inventing across the disciplines of performance and installation. The work will be practical, fast and direct using simple making techniques, voice, elemental materials, humour and personal stories. There will be an opportunity to work solo, in pairs and in groups. Bring along a piece of broken crockery. Several if you can. Ready or not there will be something provocative to show by the end. Welfare State International (WSI) was a collective of radical artists and thinkers who explored ideas of celebratory art and spectacle for 38 years. Their seminal text book "Engineers of the Imagination" inspired generations of artists and makers. Described by the Guardian as "Britain's foremost performance and installation collective", WSI pioneered site-specific visual theatre, rites of passage, community celebration, lantern parades and new carnival excess under the Artistic Direction of co-founders John Fox and Sue Gill. WSI was archived on April Fools Day 2006. Cylch o artistiaid a meddylwyr radicalaidd oedd Welfare State International: am 38 o flynyddoedd y buont yn ystyried syniadau am gelf a digwyddiadau gweledol dathliadol. Bu eu llyfr arloesol "Engineers of the Imagination" yn ysbrydoliaeth i genedlaethau o artistiaid a gwneuthurwyr. Mae'r gweithdy hwn yn y cynnig cyfle prin i weithio gyda'r cyfarwyddwyr gwreiddiol a sefydlodd y cylch. Workshop Fee: £70 waged (£35 unwaged) contact person CPR to book or for more information Web: www.thecpr.org.uk Email: cprwww@aber.ac.uk Phone: (0) 1970 622 133 Workshop location: CPR, The Foundry Studio, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth University |
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