|
TREADING WATER 1998 |
|
|
Reviews![]()
|
This was a site specific piece commissioned for the The Quay Thing - a festival of site specific work in Exeter organised by 'Wrights and Sites'.
The piece was concerned with how the history of a site is constructed as much from lies and fictions as from historical truths.
We were also fascinated with the process through which real working enviroments are scrapped and replaced with sanitised facsimiles for the easier enjoyment of visitors and incomers.
The piece was perfomed at dusk and included video and slide projections - mostly showing text - projected onto wrecked boats, tarpaulins, scrap wood and metal from around the site.
|
Site specific work allows you to incorporate the unplanned and volitile events of real places and make them part of the experience. Treading Water ended with two performers leaving in a boat and the other three roaring out of the space in a landrover taking most of the kit with them and leaving the audience alone in the dark. On the first night, seconds after the landrover had left, a huge lowflying aeroplace taking off from a nearby airport flew directly over the site. Several people thought we'd planned it ........
|
|
The complex layers of sound and stories existed within a structure supplied by the text from the Enemy of the People --- the performers acted out six edited scenes from the play which provided moments of stylised theatricality. | |