A co-production with Mercurial Wrestler
Listening Trees is the possibility of a connection with a stranger. When you sit at a Listening Tree it connects you to another seat somewhere else where someone else is sitting and you can talk and listen through the horns for as long or as briefly as you wish. When you leave the seat the connection is lost so when you sit back down you could be connected to another person on another seat, somewhere else.
In October 2015 we installed them across Torbay as part of Ageing Well Festival for their first trial.
Each Listening Tree is comprised of a handmade seat and horn which is attached to a pre-existing tree in a suitable location.
The technology is designed so that the project can be scaled by the infinite addition of new seats.
A Kaleider Production, written and directed by Seth Honnor with Andy Wood and All Seeing Eye.
Our Dancing Shadows explores two sides of the same experience, one in VR and the other watching on. Our Dancing Shadows uses the latest VR technology to enable people to collaborate in the same virtual world at once, untethered and outside.
You can choose to watch the dancers and/or be a dancer yourself. If you choose to dance, you’ll take to the stage wearing a VR headset. You do not need to have experienced VR before in order to be a dancer, or have any experience of dance. It is not a competitive environment. If you choose to be a dancer in the VR experience you will find yourself guided through a gentle, poetic VR world.
Our Dancing Shadows is a Kaleider production, redeveloped for Arts by the Sea Festival, September 2018 in Bournemouth.
Layered Realities
Our Dancing Shadows was first commissioned by Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio for Layered Realities Weekend at Millennium Square in Bristol, 17th-18th March 2018.
They asked artists, researchers and creatives to produce bold new works which explore the potential of 5G through a series of free experimental events, talks, and demonstrations.
Layered Realities was produced by Watershed on behalf of the Smart Internet Lab, University of Bristol. Smart Internet Lab has secured funds to establish ‘5GUK Test Networks’ a national asset, funded by the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) ‘5GUK Test Networks’.
The Layered Realities weekend, 5G showcase brought together the University of Bristol’s Smart Internet Lab and Watershed, We The Curious, BT, Nokia, Zeetta, Cambridge Communications Systems, PureLiFi and BiO.
A group of complete strangers has 60 minutes to agree how to spend a pot of real cash. If the Players run out of time, then the money rolls over to the next show. If they agree, then they get to take the money away and spend it.
But, the watching audience can buy their way in at any moment, right up until the last second, and that can change everything…
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The Stage
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The Daily Telegraph
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The Guardian
Matt Trueman
Lyn Gardner
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North West End UK
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Broadway World
The Age Melbourne
The Money has been performed on 5 continents…
…and in some of the world’s most prestigious venues including Sydney Opera House, UK Houses of Parliament, Lagos City Hall, Lisbon City Hall, Melbourne’s Victoria Parliament, City of London’s Guildhall, London’s County Hall, Tianjin’s Grand Theatre and many more.
How to Play
Become a Player by donating as much as you can. Work with other Players to decide what to spend the group’s money on. You have 1 hour to come to a decision. If you don’t decide unanimously in the allotted time you relinquish your privilege to spend the money and the money rolls over to the next group of Players.
If you’re the quiet observing type you can become a Silent Witness and watch as the group of Players attempt to decide how to spend the money they’ve donated. And if you want to voice your opinion you can always become a Player and buy your way in.
Spend the money on whatever you want. Be as creative as you like.
Credits
A Kaleider Production
Conceived and Directed by Seth Honnor
Collaborating Artist: Alice Tatton-Brown
Touring production Manager: Jay Kerry
Current and past performers: Nao Nagai, Laila Diallo, Lucy Cassidy, Seeta Patel, Gemma Paintin, Jessica MacDonald, Olivia Winteringham, Angie Bual, Kelly Marie Miller, Ria Hartley, Hanora Kamen, Alice Tatton-Brown, Frankie Snowdon, Peter Vanderford, Jonny Rowden, Emily Williams (also producer 2013 – 2016), and the late Paul Bull.
Pig is a large transparent pig. Inside it is a sign that reads: “This is a community fund. You can contribute to it if you like, and when you’ve agreed how to spend it you can open me and spend it. #ThePig”
And that is it.
Pig was conceived by Kaleider’s Artistic Director, Seth Honnor collaborating with Owen Gundry on pig’s fabrication. It has been commissioned by European partnership In-Situ, which brings together some of Europe’s most significant arts festivals and programmes.
Pig premiered at Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May 2018, before touring internationally.
Utterly fascinating reactions from passers by. More smart work from the creators of The Money and one which puts its trust in people and thinks the best not the worst of them.
Lyn Gardner, Writer for The Stage and Novelist
Bring Pig to your city, festival, beach, town, community…
Pig is available for international touring. And we’d love to see it travel far and wide. If you’re interested just send us a message via our contact page and one of our Producing team will be happy to get back to you with further details.
Pigzine.com
To follow Pig all over the world log on to pigzine.com where our team of young reporters (10 – 19 year olds), led by Natasha Batorijs, will be documenting everything they can find out about Pig.
Sometimes our reporters travel with Pig, but sometimes they can’t. So you can help. Whatever your age, you can upload your own stories, images and videos to pigzine.com Our reporters would love to hear from you.
Find out where you can encounter Pig:
Pig Touring dates >
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PIG, an IN SITU Pilot project, has received a creation aid by the ACT project, cofunded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The co-producers are Atelier 231 (FR), Festival di Terni (IT), Freedom Festival (UK), La Strada Graz (AT), Lieux publics (FR), Norfolk & Norwich Festival (UK), Østfold kulturutvikling (NO), Oerol Festival (NL), Theater op de Markt (BE), UZ Arts (UK).