Do As You're Told? A Centre for Creative Futures Symposium

Morning Session - Groups experience three different shows

TAG: The Other Market

The OTHER Market is a mini-larp locative media treasure hunt experience, exploring meaning-making around objects and collections of objects. What can objects mean when they are untethered from consumption and/or status?

We all go to markets looking for something that might change us.

We all go to markets looking for something (some THING) that might change us; bring us happiness or pride, friendship or love, insight or peace. Come and explore a mysterious market concealed within another market.

In the OTHER Market experience, you and your team work with special tools to discover ephemeral story fragments and to uncover the layers of meaning carried by objects around you. Can you find what breathes through apparently inanimate things? What more is there to the world around you?

ZU-UK: Make-Up Artist and Shaman

The talent is about to go on air for a live televised interview. But a change encounter with a Make-up artist is about to change the course of their lives forever.

An audio-led instruction-based 20 minutes live experience for 2 people, exploring chance encounters through a light-hearted (slightly-surreal) role-play scenario and bone conducting headphones.

ZU-UK: Deceleration

An audio-led instruction-based individual experience, guiding mind and body through a structured interaction with rhythm, speed and the environment, through a stage-by-stage process of deceleration: exploration of the embodied process of slowing down as a metaphor for a psychosocial approach to climate change.

Morning Session - Talks and sharings from artists and practitioners

TAG

Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) is an interdisciplinary centre for research/ creation in game studies and design, digital culture and interactive art from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Silvia Mercuriali - Wondermart

Silvia Mercuriali is an internationally acclaimed theatre maker and artist best known as one of the pioneers of the AUTOTEATRO strategy, which she developed in 2007 with her company Rotozaza, whereby audience members perform a piece themselves, being given instructions in various formats for what to do or say. In her work, the real and the imagined blur, in a melange of public & private interactions, comprising both the random-unplanned and the controlled-scripted. She has been commissioned by cultural centres and theatres including Brisbane Powerhouse (AUS) and Museum of Art of Kochi (JP), as well as UK commissioning bodies such as Wellcome Trust, Fuel Theatres, The Roundhouse, Battersea Arts Centre, and Harrogate Theatre & Yorkshire Festival.

Afternoon Session: Talks and sharings from artists and practitioners

Do As You're Told? Conversation with Josephine Machon, Persis Jadé Maravala and Jorge Lopes Ramos

A conversation on the book project ‘Do As You’re Told?: Conversations with ZU-UK About Instruction-based Performance Practice’, which celebrates and critiques ZU-UK’s work while foregrounding the significance of instruction-based practice as a distinct artistic approach, situating it within wider arts contexts, including and beyond immersive practices.

Maria Oshodi - Performance

Maria Oshodi worked as a script writer for theatre from 1984-1992, with plays produced by national touring companies such as Talawa and Graeae, and later published by Longmans, Metheuen and John Murray. She has worked in arts management, for BBC drama production, and as a freelance writer. In 1997, she founded Extant, now the leading UK performing arts organization managed for and by visually impaired professional arts practitioners. As Artistic Director, she has led Extant in artistic innovation around access and debate regarding the inclusion of visually impaired people in the performing arts. She has directed Extant’s touring productions, as well as led on the company’s participation, research and training strategies.

Maria Oshodi and Persis Jadé Maravala  - Laboratory Conversation

Maria Oshodi, Artistic Director of Extant, performing arts company managed for and by visually impaired professional arts practitioners, and Persis Jadé Maravala, Artistic Director of ZU-UK, disabled-led and global majority led interactive theatre and digital arts company, will be holding an event following a 1-week residency on accessible participatory practice-based research that use instruction as a main medium of participation.