Participatory – Archive

Viewed in context, HALL is a necessary step in the evolution of audio-instructed performance to a form capable of telling big, sprawling stories as well as brief, compact ones.

We’re clearly part of a recent interest and enthusiasm for installations, of being put in immersive environments.

ÁTMAN sends participants on a walk around the residential streets and footpaths of Merton, accompanied by an abridged audio-only version of Peter Handke’s Self-Accusation.

Belt Up Theatre, Tickled Pig and Ontroerend Goed are busy blurring the actor/audience divide at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. What techniques to they use and how do they compare?

Matt Boothman puts two participatory audio-led performances to the test at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2009. Rotozaza’s GuruGuru followed by David Leddy’s Susurrus.

What is the nature of the interactions we experience in ‘cyberspace’ and ‘real space’? Where does this experience reside in the individual?

This second round of reviews from the Arcola’s Adventures in Movement Festival includes coverage of Mass Exercise and Vulnerasti.

In Rotating in a Room of Images, participants spend the majority of the 15-minute production in pitch darkness, guided only by invisible hands and the spooky voice in the headphones.

Wondermart continues Rotozaza’s work with audio-instructed performance and develops the site-specific element introduced in Etiquette.

The Forest Fringe is set to challenge every convention in sight, from the role of the audience right up to what we can comfortably classify as theatre.