An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play

They Gather

Participatory performance | 2021


​This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation.

​The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience.

​The narrator guides you through a sensory choreographic journey, plunging into contemporary storytelling and podcast wormholes while soaring past an eclectic mix of dramatic song, techno, musique concrète, raggacore, field recordings / soundwalks, indie pop and ambient music.

There will be time to move with fury, fall into the softness of cushions, and collapse into the folds of time. It is all as you choose.

An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play  is a work to listen to and a work to read, both to do.


The piece is part of ‘They Gather’, an ongoing international collaborative, multimodal, interdisciplinary project, creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, movement, and sound. ‘They Gather’ consists of a growing series of independent but interrelated performances (modules) that explore the boundaries between audience, participant and performer, creating dialogue with environments, societies, politics, histories and speculative futurologies. The project aims to empower and open dialogues around the complexities and polarities of contemporary living.

For more information on ‘They Gather’ see here.

Description

Immersive sound and participatory movement experience

Duration

26 minutes

Credits

Texts: Bridge Fiske, Joseph Lau, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan

Choreographic scores: Bridge Fiske, Joseph Lau

Composition: Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan

Voice: Stephanie Pan

Sound design, Mixing & Mastering: Stelios Manousakis

Visual / accessibility score: Bridget Fiske & Dartsia Liuba

Images: Dartsia Liuba

Video trailer: Roman Lubiy

Co-producer: Project Auske

UK Independent Producer: Deb Ashby

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and Stroom Den Haag.
Created with the support of The Lowry.
Also supported by The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training and Upasana Arts