Hey everyone!
It’s been tough recently, checking in with people I know everyone seems to be going through it. So if you’re reading this then I hope you’re okay. It’s Monday morning, take it easy. I hope you have a lovely week planned and that it treats you well.
There’s a really eclectic mix this week so I hope you enjoy!
ATLAS’ WIRBEL | CONTAINER by Lose Combo
From Monday 14th June
Free
A Performative Cartographie’s Provisional Archive
After having to be postponed twice, the materials of LOSE COMBO’s most recent work has been stowed into digital containers. Some of which are now accessible on the web: as ATLAS' WIRBEL | CONTAINER.
In April, the Reinbeckhallen in Oberschöneweide became a performative laboratory for LOSE COMBO’s cartographic experiment. Together with Sonar Quartett countless mythological, literary, etymological, anatomical and geographical entanglements of Atlas were explored.
In their lectures, Claudia Splitt and Florian Feigl tell of remote volcanic islands and rare birds, of Greek gods, ancient historians and postmodern encyclopedias, referring to anecdotes and geographical descriptions. While the musicians of Sonar Quartett navigate through Jörg Laue's cartographic composition STRICH, based on the first Portolan map, the so-called Carta Pisana.
The CONTAINER version of ATLAS’ WIRBEL invites its audience to browse through 9 to 17 minute sequences of materials and remixes that accentuate different aspects of the work. Insights to scores and text materials, video excerpts and tape recordings, as well as stagings of concerts and text performances.
Instead of (or rather: bridging the gap to) a life performance, ATLAS' WIRBEL | CONTAINER will be unveiled on June 14th, 2021.
The Distraction Agents by Third Angel
From Monday 14th June
£15
You caught our attention. You are special.
We're looking for people who see the world in a slightly different way. People who notice things others don't. And we think that might be you. We just need to, well, get to know you a little bit better. See where your strengths lie. You could be a great asset to us. And we could change your life.
Do you have what it takes to be a Distraction Agent?
The Department of Distractions, a clandestine organisation that claims its job is to plant stories in the world “to make life more interesting”, is on the search for new recruits… and they think YOU might be just what they need.
Part puzzle, part game, part film, part real life, The Distraction Agents is an on and offline experience, arriving first as an intriguing package through the post, followed by instructions as to how to complete the challenges, delivered to your inbox as a series of short films across a week.
Felt ( Work In Progress) by Pip Williams
Monday 14th June
£5
Denny and Dinny are two of the best-loved characters on children’s television - two simple, colourful puppets who talk all day about everything out there in the big wide world. So, what happens when the cameras are turned off? ‘FELT’ is a surreal, darkly funny exploration of toxic friendships and how we look after each other, told through the on and off-camera relationship between Dinny, Denny and their puppeteers. The Muppets do Waiting for Godot; a Sesame Street outtake gone horribly wrong.
The Live and Time by Scottish Dance Theatre
Thursday 17th & Friday 18th June
From £5
This new digital work by Artistic Director and Choreographer Joan Clevillé will see Scottish Dance Theatre’s dancers returning to their home stage of Dundee Rep. Broadcast live in a single, continuous shot, The Life and Times will be a cinematic, surreal dance journey, set to a sumptuous soundtrack of Baroque music. The work is a visual meditation on human fragility and explores how our relationship with time has changed over the last year.
strings attached MINI_ARCHIVE OF QUEER FUTURES by Jil Dreyer
From 17th June
Free
Tell me about what future means to you. Tell me about the community you want to build. Tell me about the change you want to see. Tell me how you want your story to be told. Tell me how it goes on...
Queer past is erased or hidden so often – let’s imagine a future (and hold on to that).
In a digital 1-on-1 performance Jil Dreyer asks you one question. A question about queer futures that made it to the surface from the depths of social media. A question of another queer. Questions and answers will become part of a digital mini-archive of Queer Futures.
This week please consider supporting Stop it Now! A charity that specialises in preventing child abuse.
“We are at the forefront of work to prevent child sexual abuse. As a child protection charity, we campaign and raise awareness across the UK to help adults to do their part to stop child sexual abuse by addressing personal, family and community concerns.
Wherever we work, we build community strength and help families to know the steps to keep their children safe from sexual abuse.”
Also, I’m doing this on tonight at 8pm. Link will go live on my twitter at 8pm
Hope you have a lovely week and see you next week!
Lots of love
Josh