An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play - image design by Dartsia Liuba
An immersive sound and participatory movement experience.
This first-person performance/radio play is a genre-blurring 26-minute trip offering a deep dive into our relationship with time and the freedom of isolation.
The piece unfolds and transforms your domestic environment through music, text and your movement, turning it into the setting of a multisensory experience.
The narrator guides you through a sensory choreographic journey, plunging into contemporary storytelling and podcast wormholes while soaring past an eclectic mix of dramatic song, techno, musique concrète, raggacore, field recordings / soundwalks, indie pop and ambient music.
There will be time to move with fury, fall into the softness of cushions, and collapse into the folds of time. It is all as you choose.
An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play is a work to listen to and a work to read, both to do.
Presented to date:
- The Lowry (#LoveLowry, UK)
- The Place & Chisenhale Dance’s ‘How Do We Tune Into Sensation?’ festival (UK)
- Modern Body Laboratory (NL)
- Rewire international electronic music festival on-line edition (NL)
The piece is part of They Gather, an international and interdisciplinary project creating ‘gatherings’ of people, action, dance, sound and music. Co-created and co-produced by Bridget Fiske (UK/AU) & Joseph Lau (UK/AU) with Stelios Manousakis (NL/GR) & Stephanie Pan (NL/US).
For more information visit the project’s website.
Video Trailer
| Year: | 2020-2021 |
| Type: | Audio, text, and movement score |
| Description: | Immersive sound and participatory movement experience |
| Duration: | 26 minutes |
| Capacity: | One-on-one |
| Materials/Media: | Sound, Text, Movement, Visual score |
| Makers: | Bridge Fiske, Joseph Lau, Stelios Manousakis, Stephanie Pan |
| Image design: | Dartsia Liuba |
| Video creation: | Roman Lubiy |
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and Stroom Den Haag.
Created with the support of The Lowry.
Also supported by The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training and Upasana Arts