Where does agency end and voyeurism begin? Performance artist Eloina Haines explores censorship, ownership, and what happens when the physical performer is absent and only the online image remains. Valentine’s Day 2020. I am towering over a sweaty audience in the equally sweaty Vaults tunnels in London. Two male performers, attached to my wrists […]
Tag Archives: Total Theatre Artists as Writers
The Curse of The Serious Artist
March 19th, 2021 by Tom BrennanToxic or what? Tom Brennan – director, writer and co-founder of The Wardrobe Ensemble – muses on fragile masculinity in art-making When I was a teenager, I was, quite frankly, a brilliant actor. And I bloody knew it. I was excellent in the way that teenage boys are excellent at acting. I was brooding and […]
A Collaboration with Time
March 15th, 2021 by Katy PinkeDoes time bend longer around a hand holding itself than a hand holding a stick? American artist and musician Katy Pinke has had plenty of time over the past year to reflect on – time ‘There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.’ Virginia Woolf, […]
The Two-Metre Rule
February 22nd, 2021 by Maddie HaynesCan immersive theatre get too close? Maddie Haynes reflects on intimacy and the artist’s duty of care towards the audience ‘You look like you’d be into something different.’ It’s the middle of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe, and two men in dark suits named Harold and Arthur hand me a flyer. They tell me that, to […]
Can Art Save our Planet?
February 12th, 2021 by Yael KaravanWell, can it? Then how? Where do we start? Yael Karavan asks the questions and tries to find some answers As far back as I can remember, from a very young age, I’ve been involved with the performing arts; exploring ways to break the mundane reality into an unexpected, absurd, surreal and poetic visual realm. […]