The Thing: An Automatic Workshop in Everyday Disruption
An intensive, collective workshop created by artists Ant Hampton and Christophe Meierhans.
"The Thing" is both a participatory performance and a workshop. It’s for a group of 8-12 participants at a time and unfolds as a kind of personal quest for an action, gesture or ongoing practice - your “THING” - which could combine the following: a way to respond to something in the world which you feel needs addressing; a way to respond to something in yourself which you feel needs addressing; something which you can carry out without expense or complication: it’s only yourself in the way. There is no-one present leading the workshop: the structure is automated.
The workshop takes place as part of the Fall 2019 Critical Practices Program.
CONCEPT / CREATION:
Ant Hampton & Christophe Meierhans
VIDEO PRODUCTION:
Luca Mattei
CODING / ELECTRONICS:
Toby Duckworth
WITH DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT FROM:
Das Theater, Amsterdam
Studio support from Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Brussels
THANKS TO:
Agnieszka Kurant, James Plummer
CO-PRODUCED BY:
Auawirleben Theaterfestival Bern
Kaaitheater Brussels
West Kowloon Cultural Development Hong Kong
Theatre & Dance Department at Iceland Academy of the Arts Reykjavik
Zeitraumexit Mannheim
Techne - eine Produktionsplattform von
Theater Rampe und Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Over het IJ Festival Amsterdam
Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil
FARº Festival, Nyon
