
An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play
They Gather
Participatory performance | 2021
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