As part of the ‘Polska’ season of Polish performance at Summerhall, Wojtek Ziemilski presents Small Narration, a performance-lecture video-art mix-up. What’s in a name? Nationality? Identity? Personality? Wojtek has changed his name a few times, and explains to us the reasons by reading a monologue as the various alterations to his name are projected behind […]

In which Chris Goode comes of age, taking words out of the mouth of babes and onto the stage of the Trav… Monkey Bars is a piece of verbatim theatre, with texts taken from interviews with children between the ages of six and eleven (conducted by Goode’s collaborator Karl James – mediator, facilitator, and director, known […]

Coco Pops for £1 and a Roast Dinner Sandwich for £5 – this reasonably priced art-café is the pop-up project of performance artists Jenny Hunt and Holly Darton. As well as being a working café, it is an art piece (because they, the artists, say it is) presented as part of the Escalator East to […]

Two girls with laptops at a table, upstage. The content of each screen is projected side-by-side behind them onto the rear wall. The images we see are of two tear-stained faces – a whole slideshow of them. It goes from photos to real-time videoing, and we see the tears really falling. This moves into footage […]

Welcome to the future! This is the future as it used to be – spaceships, robots, and hovercraft-like vehicles. Planet Lem’s vision is of a world in which experiments in Artificial Intelligence have led to robots taking over all the important work of the world. Humans, relieved of all major responsibilities, with no productive work to […]