Experiments in Rest

A rupture of stillness. A silent scream. Join us for an autobiographical performance installation mining themes of labor, tenderness, exhaustion and strength. In a culture obsessed with urgency and a time limit, how can we find rest within a system that forces us to be productive? Since when did doing nothing require so much mental effort? Watch as 4 individuals resist their restlessness with a shared task, stitching themselves back together towards a sense of stillness and questioning their process to get to this point, and those that came before. Watch as they are united in their shared vulnerability, slowly unfolding at the seams. Holding still, holding in one action, they try to navigate everything that tells them to move. For what would happen if we actually stopped doing something, fulfilling a purpose, defining our value by the product we present? A performative, eternal challenge mapped out on a river of white fabric, Experiments in Rest asks you to consider what binds us and who we are when we choose to pause.

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TIME

01 Jul, 19:00 - 19:45

02 Jul, 14:50 - 15:55

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VENUE

Studio 2

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ARTISTS

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Bridget Russon is an artist who works with the personal, the everyday and the archived material in order to focus on present states of mind. Her work is situated within both durational live art and short film creation.

Instagram @bridge_russon

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Kate Ireland is a multidisciplinary artist from Glasgow. Kate works across spoken word, facilitation, contemporary performance and visual practise, with an overriding interest in issues of childhood, capitalism, empathy, mental health and the mundane. Her work is characterised by a sense of humour, story telling and a DIY approach, working in opposition to hierarchy, prestige, superficiality and isolation. She runs the scratch performance event ‘Blether’ (Scottish verb: To talk in a long winded way without making much sense) which offers a platform for new and emerging performance works to be tested out in a supportive environment.

Instagram @kate__ireland

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Ella Kennedy is a writer, performance maker, producer and teacher. Ella studied Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds. Her work looks at the dreamlike, the muddy, the wondrous, the magic, and everything that exists in the moments just before you wake up. It tells little stories about little lives and asks us to think of ourselves in multiple, in hundreds, in joy and as children, trying to work out what is fantastical in the chaotic, every shifting, never-true state of being.

Instagram @ellaknndy | www.imogenellakennedy.wixsite.com

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Emilia Schlosser is a performer, a researcher, a writer, a collaborator, a mover, a movement, a name, a word, a metaphor, a partial perspective, an invitation, a cocoon. Born in Berlin, Emilia studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Praxis in Theatre and Fine Arts in Hildesheim (GE) and Stockholm (SW). She is a passionate lover of sticky notes, folds and textile. Emilias work is like a patchwork of theory and artistic practice, conversing with the world through literal and metaphorical stitches. These stitches create connection, sometimes they hurt a little.

Instagram @wirbeide_kollektiv