Nature v Nurture stimulus images

Workshop 4

We watched the pieces developed by the class. Write about the work that you saw and the potential of the pieces. How were they experiential?

GROUP PIECE

We then started to work on the group piece.

What does it say to an audience so far? 

What is your favourite moment of the piece so far and why?

How is it experimental? 

Workshop 3

1 hour session on creating a narrative using images- inspired by Forced Entertainment...

Each person had 5 random pictures.

You had 10 minutes to create a story using them.

In groups of 4/5 each person tells their story. They must show their pictures throughout. No one can interrupt.

You discussed how the stories were told: In first person? Location centred? Character driven? Did we feel like we were there? Etc...

Next in pairs shared your pictures, decide to keep all 10, or get rid of a few. You then created a new story. Again must share the pictures when telling the story. Focused further on how the stories can be told. (You should find that these become more about a performance)

Share and discuss the work. 

Evaluate your experience of these exercises. 

You then started to develop your duets/trips responding to your art work from The Tate. 

What did you decide to use?

Why were you drawn to this piece of art?

What is your piece about?

How is it experimental? 

What practical ideas do you have?

What do you want your work to say?

Nature V Nurture

You need to have completed some research on the 'NATURE V NURTURE' debate.

Here are some links for you:

Saatchi Gallery

http://www.saatchigallery.com/

For further inspiration have a look here. You can see all the art work online. If you have a spare evening or weekend you should pop and see the work. 

The gallery is in Sloane Square, just down the road from The Royal Court Theatre. 

Some cabinets...

Experimental Company - Forced Entertainment

Artistic director Tim Etchells describes performance as...

'going into another world and coming back with gifts'. 

'The work we make tries to explore what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life and is always a kind of conversation or negotiation, something that needs to be live. We’re interested in making performances that excite, challenge, question and entertain other people. We’re interested in confusion as well as laughter.

We started working together in 1984; in the many projects we’ve created since then we’ve made lists, played games, spoken gibberish, stayed silent, made a mess, dressed up, stripped down, confessed to it all, performed magic tricks, told jokes, clowned around, played dead, got drunk, told stories and performed for six, twelve and even 24 hours at a stretch. We’ve worked on texts, we’ve danced and moved, we’ve fixed things meticulously, we’ve improvised. We’ve made serious work that turned out to be comical, and comical work that turned out to be deadly serious, digging deep into theatre and performance, thinking about what those things might be for us and what kinds of dialogue they can open with contemporary audiences.

As well as performance works, we’ve made gallery installations, site-specific pieces, books, photographic collaborations, videos and even a mischievous guided bus tour. In many ways the company itself – a unique 30 year collaboration – is the bedrock of everything we do, a rare example of people building, maintaining and continuing to develop a vocabulary, way of working and innovating together over a long period of time.'

Taken from their website: http://www.forcedentertainment.com/about/

Here are some clips of the companies work, watch and write a response to what you've seen. 

Q - What makes their work experimental? 

An interesting interview with Tim Etchells (Artistic Director of FE)  - speaks about his solo project and how it was devised. Could be useful for creating your work next week. 

Here is the FE channel on youtube, lots of lovely videos to watch...

https://www.youtube.com/user/ForcedEntertainment