Between You and Us: A Symposium with Uninvited Guests |
4 Nov 2006 |
Between You and Us was an opportunity for taking stock and reflection on a decade of work by company Uninvited Guests', alongside a showing of Nuffield-commissioned piece It Is Like It Ought to Be: A Pastoral. Speakers addressed the company's entire body of work, with invited creative responses to the new show from artists. This symposium was part of the Nuffield Theatre Practice Reflected symposium series and took place at the Nuffield Theatre on 4 November 2006.
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about the event |
Eight years after their first show, and at a turning point, Uninvited Guests pause for a while to reflect on past work. A number of invited guests discuss the trajectory towards their current pastoral retreat. These presentations will be interrupted by creative responses to the Nuffield UK premiere of It Is Like It Ought To Be by artistic friends and local artists.
Previous projects, Guest House, Film, Offline, Live Chat, Schlock, and Aftermath have toured nationally and internationally. They have explored relationships between live and mediated, real and on-screen spaces. Drawing on documentary interviews, Uninvited Guests have spoken others' words as though their own, borrowing their declarations of love and traumatic memories, mixing them with fictional desires and schlock-horror violence. It Is Like It Ought to Be, a requiem for English folk imagined, marks a nostalgic retreat, a turn from our urban age towards the countryside. Speakers included:
Matt Fenton (chair)
Paul Clarke, Jess Hoffman and Richard Dufty (Co-directors, Uninvited Guests)
Sarah Gorman (Roehampton University)
Simon Jones (Bristol University & Bodies in Flight)
David Williams (Dartington College of Art)
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Practice Reflected |
The Nuffield Theatre at Lancaster University curates a wealth of contemporary arts practice in performance, live art, dance and installation. Regularly funded by Arts Council England North West, the theatre commissions up to 6 new performances each year from artists and companies who question the boundaries of the art-forms in which they work. Recent residencies, commissions and co-productions have included Forced Entertainment, Lone Twin, Imitating the Dog, Walker Dance Park Music, Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, Kazuko Hohki, Niki McCretton, Uninvited Guests, Vincent Dance Theatre, Ben Faulks, Ursula Martinez and Mark Whitelaw.
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Practice Reflected provides an opportunity for artists to reflect formally on their own practice, often for the first time in an academic/artistic context, and to invite responses from other practitioners, writers, critics and academics. Events are open to the public, students, artists and academics, and take place alongside the showing (often UK premieres) of new works supported or commissioned by the Nuffield Theatre. While taking the form of symposia, events often include artists' letters, lecture demonstrations, happenings and performances as well as more traditional critical/reflexive papers and discussions. Sited within Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, the Nuffield Theatre is ideally placed to facilitate these events, and draws on a wealth of research, practice and creative industry specialisms from across the University and nationally.
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