Crowd Work
Joshua Dolphin
Now try this machine feeding you the best entertainment AND your live reaction to it!
Crowd Work maximizes viewing pleasure by showing audiences what they like and how they like it.
But beside its formidable technology, how does a live performer fare?
As part of Crowd Work’s latest update, watch stand-up comedian Arthur Slidell step into this brave new world and compete for your affections.
Joshua Dolphin is an actor and comedian from Shropshire. Before Goldsmiths, he made work while studying at Oxford and Princeton. He is one half of the double act Moon.
Sport
Nuria Legarda Andueza and Fionnuala Kennedy
Sport presents two worlds completely diverse, which simultaneously appear across a divide. Spectator decides what connects them.
Nuria Legarda Andueza is an interdisciplinary theatre maker, choreographer, performer and teacher in performing arts. Her work develops a narrative discourse through image and movement, exploring the fragile human experience of survival. www.nurialegarda.com
Fionnuala Kennedy is a performance artist and musician working with the colour blue and orange, live electronics, vocal manipulation and an intention to be present with you.
Defence to Forbid
Sarah Dufayard and Laura Guarch
Defence to Forbid is an immersive performance installation using live voices, sound technology and an architecture of light. The work explores the politics of space in London by physically and sonically mapping Privately Owned Public Spaces, known as POPS. The performance draws attention to how the privatisation of these spaces impacts on democratic rights and engages citizens in claiming for a more inclusive space.
Sarah Dufayard is a French performance maker. Her work explores human relationship to urbanism. She creates immersive experiences which questions the audience on the current political context.
Laura Guarch is a singer, composer, performance maker and workshop leader from Catalonia based in the UK. She often puts sound and voice at the core of her immersive installations and performances. Her work focuses on politics and poetics of space in relation to democratic rights and freedoms.
Schadenfreude
Danae Baert, Laura Beecham and Talin Hildebrandt
You are cordially invited to Schadenfreude; the garden party that will make you glad it wasn’t you. Weather permitting.
Danae Baert is a visual storyteller, using performance and photography to create atmospheres and experiences, site or studio work. The body is the central axis where the work moves around in combination with objects and text.
Laura Beecham is an actress and performance artist, who works particularly with comedy and satire as a means of exploring issues of class, race and gender.
Talin Hildebrandt is a theatre maker from Peru, who’s experimental work engages with social and political issues. ‘My work generally focuses on Peruvian culture as well as modern conflicts in the Middle East.’
Burning Fags
Jack Edwards
This performance explores the nature of childhood nostalgia, ritualistic behaviours and conservative British towns.
“I stare into his belly, as the Boyes are marching through the streets. Parading the empty carcass among an intoxicated riot of pleasure. They hoist him into the night sky, and wash the air with purple, incandescent smoke. They watch his skin melt in delight, and relish that yet another has burnt into dust.”
Jack Edwards is a theatre-maker, festival performer and lip-sync artist, queerly eyeing up the subjects of capitalism, conservatism and cabaret.
Shift
George Arnett, Aoibheann Greenan and
Niamh Williamson
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George Arnett is a performance maker and journalist. His work responds to institutions and hierarchies, seeking out corners for reflection and communication within these structures.
Aoibheann Greenan is a live artist whose practice explores the politics of spectatorship, agency and risk. She creates mediated environments that propose alternate ways of perceiving/interacting with given systems.
Niamh Williamson is a performance artist. She is in the early stages of establishing an experimental platform for the research and development of devised performance in Norway.
Arachnoid’s Cauda
Diogo André and Han
Arachnoid’s Cauda projects curiosities and how this leaves imprints on our bodies through movement. Composing a score of interactions linked through clay, plastic and flesh, it highlights an internal oppression in these biological male performers who project their desire to be Other.
Diogo André is a Performance Maker. Born in Lisbon, he is trained in Circus, Contemporary Dance and Theatre. He is interested in working as a facilitator for Performance.
Han is a Taiwanese performance maker. Writing and painting are the ways to create his performances, focusing on tiny little clues hidden in daily life.
and Found
Holly Khan and Helle Marie Tviberg
How did we used to stay in touch? What was communication like before cell phones and social media? and Found is a performance installation which distances itself from the digital reality that permeates our modern life. It explores the nostalgic qualities of a specific material that we now take for granted. As time elongates and distorts, faceless creatures blindly sort, and utopian realities are revealed.
Holly Khan is a performer, composer and multi-instrumentalist with a BA honours in European Theatre Arts. Her work sits on the cusp of performance and installation, with an emphasis on highlighting elements of sound.
Helle Marie Tviberg is a Norwegian performer with a background in physical theatre. She has organised interdisciplinary art festivals and residencies in Oslo. Her performance work explores material properties and site specificity.
T2
Lorie Jo Trainor Buckingham and Ana Vicente
T2 is a site specific sound and performance piece about two people's attempt at ascending a 150-year old, 60 ft. high, London Plane Tree, T2, on Goldsmiths grounds. The audience is invited to witness these two people finding their place on this tree.
Lorie Jo Trainor Buckingham is a London born fine artist and co founder of A Taste Of Space.
Ana Vicente is a Portuguese-born, London-based artist and lecturer, working multidisciplinary between drawing, installation, photography, book work and performance.
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Betwixt
Xinran Shi and Bianca Vrcan
Betwixt is inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's play, The House of Bernarda Alba, situated in a village in southern Spain. Performers portray the intensity of the atmosphere experienced between the women confined in the same space. Their footwork speaks of oppression and interpersonal tensions and conflicts.
Xinran Shi is trained traditional Chinese dancer and choreographer. Her recent works include physical theatre, dance film and photography. This summer she will present her new work in Edinburgh 2018 fringe festival.
Bianca Vrcan is a multi-disciplinary artist graduated in fashion design in Italy and contemporary dance in UK. Also Argentine tango artist since 1995 (as a teacher, dancer, choreographer, composer, film-maker) and MACP graduate from Trinity Laban.
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