Exhibitions & events
Gob Squad present Performance Lecture and Live Long and Prosper
7:30pm to 9:00pm, 16 February 2012
Studio A, The Performance Centre, University College Falmouth, Penryn, TR10 9LX
A rare chance to get to know the inner workings of this collective of UK and German artists. The lecture will lift the lid on their participatory performances where the boundaries between audience and performers often disappear completely. On stage or on camera, members of the public can find themselves in the role of heroes, villains, lovers or liberators. This lecture explores the company's methods and motivations behind their work.
Screening: Live long and prosper
20 mins. English and German (with a tiny bit of Spanish).
Seven film sequences are re-staged by seven performers across the city of Berlin. Shown on two screens, the devices of narrative film are doubled up and reflected back on themselves in a cinematic game of spot the difference. The mountains of the Wild West become escalators in the central station, a battlefield from a historic war becomes a city fairground and the interior of the Starship Enterprise is played by a cheap "Everything's a Pound" shop. The intertwined sequences and their doppelgangers weave simultaneously towards their inevitably tragic ends. Performers prepare and play out their scenes with tender seriousness, leaving a trail of pretend corpses, extracted from their borrowed sources and abandoned in cinematic pull backs that reveal everyday urban life continuing around them.
Gob Squad is a collective that has been working together since 1994. Characterised by a desire to place the beautiful in the mundane, their performances often site home made magic and spectacle next to the banality of everyday life. Quoting a dizzying range of cultural sources, their work playfully looks at the construction of contemporary identity with humour that entertains and provokes. Rather than passively consuming, Gob Squad audiences often take active roles that create special relationships to the art works.
Tickets
£10.00 full price/£7.50 concessions
(Student ticket vouchers accepted-terms and conditions apply)
In person: The Performance Centre, University College Falmouth, Tremough Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9LX
(Monday - Friday 9.30am-5.00pm, 7.00pm on performance days)
Telephone: 01326 255885 (Monday - Friday 9.30am-5.00pm)
Online: Book tickets via our secure online payment website
Tickets are also available from the Poly, Falmouth
In person: The Poly, 24 Church Street, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG
Telephone: 01326 319461
Online: www.thepoly.org
Contact : ruth.cross@falmouth.ac.uk 01326 255941
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