Monday 4 July 2016

#6 The public square



I am currently devising a public intervention performance whose aim is to be a platform for spontaneous and non-rehearsed dialogue between members of the community.

I am looking at ways in which the performance space can act as a public space which holds possibilities for embodied encounters with others and potentialities for transformative individual and collective direct experiences.

I have named this The Public Square. It is a non-scripted intervention whose shape and content will be defined by what the public will bring into it and what will emerge in the moment out of random conversations between strangers. It is a non-theatre event in the sense that it doesn't adhere to traditional theatre conventions but rather views performance as a unique space of encounter and dialogue.

At a historic time where relations with others are impregnated with suspicion, fear and hostility, and where digital media have drastically altered the way we communicate with one another, this intervention aims at restoring a cultural and social space of sharing at the heart of our communities. It offers an artistic response to the increasing atomisation of social life that has resulted in a sense of loss of our ability to recognise and engage with others.