Drum roll please...meet our new and brilliant Expanded Performance cohort. They will be exploring the concept of liveness and togetherness in the context of innovations in technology across the live music and theatre sectors (thread). Read full biogs here: bit.ly/ExPerform
First up we have our Fellows: @CleoDanceBaton will be exploring empathy, understanding, identity and healing looking at how to create stories and immersive inclusion amongst the isolated.
Next we have @EllieChads researching the transformative potential of community-engaged sensorially-immersive theatre. She will be exploring how it create new rituals of behaviour in audiences and how it impacts our bodies/brains differently to traditional theatre.
@HarrySilverlock will be researching how digital techniques such as motion and volumetric capture can expand on embodied and participatory live dance experiences and are these experiences engaging the LGBTQ community?
Manu Maunganidze is interested in the rituals we perform in our multi-cultural urban societies in the context of Expanded Performance. Can the sharing of daily rituals help to bridge understanding between communities?
Olly Langdon from @kiltertheatre will be researching how technology can build on an existing collection of ‘expansion’ techniques in theatre, specifically looking at expanding engagement numbers and opportunities for audiences at each stage of their journey.
@RoxanaVilk will be beginning her fellowship by asking how can emerging technologies allow us to Expand Performance to include communities throughout? Her research will be addressed through a lens of inclusion and co-creation.
Next up @Tanuja_A asks: Are there inherent ‘emotionalities’ in different technologies that open up new ways to connect with story in the live moment?
Tessa Ratuszynska will be researching the concept of public space in VR, and how we might represent difference in virtual public space that does not replicate exclusions in the real world.
And our ninth Fellow is @teamaxe, he is interested in embodiment and presence and his research will explore how we can enhance artistic expression and audience perception. He will be exploring how miniaturised sensors can be used to capture fine motor movements in gestural music.
Next we have six Industry Partners: @BraveBoldDrama will be exploring if the use of technology in extra-curricular performing arts opportunities means young people (11-16) from lower socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to engage.
@houseimaginatn is interested in how to engage young people in Expanded Performance work in authentic and inclusive ways. How do we genuinely co-author, co-design, and co-produce an experience that is with and for young people?
Focusing on their new large-scale commission BEETHOVEN-RENDERING, @Paraorchestra will be researching how they can develop and utilise technology to enhance the experience of live immersive performances for D/deaf audiences.
Next up, @RaucousCaucous asks how can the rulebook for live performance audience communications be re-written so the storytelling is expanded and extended using mixed-reality?
@squidsoup plans to extend their immersive multipoint sound and light system AudioWAVE, with a particular focus on live vocals and the audience/performer relationship. What form of “song” can be performed in an immersive multiple sound source space?
And finally @theeggbath asks:
- What would happen if expanded performance tore down our institutions?
- What would happen if expanded performance deconstructed our power structures?
- What would happen if expanded performance gave every child a seat at the table?
PHEW what a list, we are as excited as the children in the last photo. Stay tuned for updates as the Fellows and Industry Partners begin their research journey. Over and out.
#GoodAfternoonDearOnes
Today, I wish us courage tempered with compassion. We can get drunk on courage when bravery tips into bravado. May our strength be consort with softness, as needed. Onwards, together.
(I start each day @Grace_Quantock w/ a blessing, so I'm offering this)
Hi, I'm @Grace_Quantock I'm a psychotherapeutic counsellor & writer, working across social care, health & human rights.
On my Fellowship, I've been asking whether science-fiction storytelling and Augmented Reality (AR) can inspire people to imagine preferable, more inclusive futures for their places together?
Can interactive performance methods engage a wider range of people in discussing plans for their neighbourhoods, and are these conversations more effective in the sites that are being developed?
I was interested in whether places can be critiqued through located science-fiction storytelling, how the distancing effect of sci-fi relates to AR, and ways in which @UGuests & @_dspk's Billennium models a participatory and democratised approach to urban design.
Taking up the Tweeting baton from @shawnsobers. As he was DJing yesterday, thought I’d start with a morning music suggestion, something appropriately sci-fi from Patten, which he recorded during lockdown:
Early in my research, I was reading Patten's publication, 3049, which accompanied an exhibition at London’s Tenderpixel. They say, 'It sets the stage for a non-dystopic reimagining of a positive collective future, asking; "how do we make it to 3049?": issuu.com/555-5555/docs/…
I’m Paul Clarke and, on my #DigitalPlacemaking Fellowship, I've been exploring tools for better future-making, asking who gets included in processes of neighbourhood visioning and in the futures imagined.
Greetings! This is @shawnsobers picking up the reigns from @tim_lytc for this Twitter Takeover for the Digital Placemaking research project. Tim gave us lots to think about, and I hope I can do this justice and post some interesting stuff for the rest of the afternoon.
First.... a song. This came out in 1982, and was one of the first songs with a social commentary that I really took notice of. I'll explain more after you have a listen....enjoy!
Songs like this continue to influence what I do and how I do it, somehow trying to make my work connected to real world issues and communities.
Hello world! It’s @tim_lytc checking in for the morning. I’m a NEW TALENT Fellow on the programme. I’m a Queer dance creative working across theatre, film and creative tech. My work is centred on advocating for gender, health, race and Queer issues.
My #digitalplacemaking research looks at the potentials of combining #Dance & Movement with #CreativeTechnology to create safer spaces for #Queer folks. Check out my page for a little taste of what I've done✨
At the beginning, I was inspired by past work I had done with @LiminaImmersive@SplashAndRipple@lisamaythomas And their approach to bodies and technology - The conscious effort to create comfortable, inclusive spaces, where audiences could escape and connect at the same time.
.@rose_kala_dias here wrapping up. I wanted to mention RESEARCH. it can be a scary word right? BUT this programme has changed how I feel. I've been able to follow my gut + ask questions to elicit 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀
My #digitalplacemaking research= qualitative data on the themes + 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 at play in creating digital spaces which centre care for bipoc... It is more than stories and data though, it is a connected web of relationships developing a momentum around these ideas
𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗜'𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 #𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗳𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 feat. stories, thoughts + feelings exploring the intersections of rest, race, culture, disability, labour + politics as part of my #digitalplacemaking research 😍