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In Tilley’s Garden: figures in a landscape
Reflections on the work of Christopher Yates Tilley 3
This is Part 3 of a reflection upon the works of Chris Tilley, prompted by his too-early death in March 2024.
I want to do justice to the range and depth, the significance of his work in anthropology and archaeology. My reflections are based on memories, close collaboration, and deep reading of all his writing. His work, now finished,…
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Test Dept. / Brith Gof – Gododdin 1989 (Full Album HD)
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Brith Gof - Gododdin
A documentary about the work of site specific performance by Brith Gof and Test Dept.. Made for UK TV in 1990.
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Introduction to Site Specific
Not an installation piece
Research and development project - Director/designer
Digital emphasis, big work
costume drawings as comic book, newspaper, wristbands - looking at ticketing, app (listening in a coffee shop), record covers as costume drawings, chip shop tvs and CCTV, costumes as 3D figures, rough/painterly model (getting a sense of the space), modelling only a space
How the proposal is pieced together
How text can appear in the site - ways that are key to the site
Costume drawing and what form they take (costume is really important)
History of the site - an exhibition
Using the model to animate the scene
(A model that does enough)
Not just what you propose, but how you propose it.
Each performance is very individual/ challenging/ questioning how things should be done.
Personal manifesto/what informs your choices?
Designers:
Brith Gof - Volcano theatre
‘iron’
former steel factory - anarchic theatre language, free to wander around wrecked cars - music and sound, physical theatre. You ‘sew together’ the meanings of the piece for yourself. Conceptual. Written text not so dominant.
Odin Teatret - Eugenio Barba
‘the castle of holstebro’
Large outdoor performances, a visual narrative (archetypal characters/montage of ‘disparate’ images. Music + ritual as a performance language.) Dreamlike - emotion. Absence of concrete answers/explanations.
Enrique Vargas ‘Theatre of the Senses’
Colombian director. How touch, sound, smell, lack of sight impacts our experience of the world. Entering a structure as an individual performance member. How deeply are you placed within the environment?
Theatre in prison
HMP Cardiff
Theatre is vital for people to become different versions of themselves. How audiences cross a bridge into another world. Politics of how some stories are hidden away from view, how you can encourage accessibility/visibility. WHERE you make work - the context can give it new meaning. Using theatre to cross boundaries of texts (ie class/establishment). Socio-political.
‘The Container’
Welsh refugees, play performed inside a shipping container. ‘what would it do to you?’ Who you’re making it for and why.
‘Day to Go’
Journeys. Audience on a bus (Barry), headphones, soundscape of gathered stories (past and present and future). Instability/transience of place and moment. Capitalism and economic impermanence - where does this cross into the personal? Ticketing as a bus ticket. Theatre into every day life - protest. Bus as a filter to performance - perspective of inside the bus vs outside the bus - who is audience/who is performer?
Trespassing - ownership of land etc, breaching rules and regulations through theatre. giving audiences the opportunity to trespass.
Erving Goffman
‘A night in the clink’
Front of house vs backstage - boundaries and divisions - personas and intimacy.
The Clink - Charity for rehabilitating inmates at HMP Cardiff. Mirror, a liminal space. Realism, actors performing real work.
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Test dept and Brith Gof - arddyledog ganu
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memory and return - Tri Bywyd (Three Lives) 1995
memory and return – Tri Bywyd (Three Lives) 1995
On the return of the past, memory and archive.
from document to archive
Mediation – remote learning
Katie Pearl (theatre director and professor at Wesleyan – see her extraordinary work here – [Link]) recently got in touch asking about the performance in Wales in 1995 of Tri Bywyd (trans Three Lives), a work of theatre/archaeology by arts company Brith Gof. Specifically she mentioned a…
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#Brith Gof#Cliff McLucas#Eddie Ladd#Esgair Fraith#Katie Pearl#Lynette White#Mike Pearson#Sarah Jacob#Tri Bywyd
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#Brith Gof#Celctic History#Documentary#Gododdin#Industrial#Medieval#Soundtrack#Test Dept#Test Dept.#Theatre#Welsh Culture#Y Gododdin#avant-garde#dramatisation of the annihilation#performance art#Anti-nationalism
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