‘Audacious, subversive even’ – The Guardian ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
‘One of the most striking events in the LIFT 2022’ – Time Out
Lumen Prize 2023 Winner
IndieCade Live Action Award Nominee
In RADIO GHOST, you are a ghost-hunter, broadcasting your journey as you reach through portals into the far-away dimensions of a haunted Mall. You and your team of hunters will have to blend in as perfect shoppers to unlock ghost stories, in this mission that is part walking game, part interactive radio show and part ghost-hunt.
For further details on the projects, check the ZU-UK website.
For further information about the Sound/Image 2023 visit here.
The Centre for Creative Futures and the Sound & Image Festival at the University of Greenwich presentWithin Touching Distance, Binaural Dinner Date and Radio Ghost in partnership with the Institute for Inclusive Communities & Environments
Recommended by Evening Standard and Guardian Close Encounters.
Part audio-led interactive performance, part dating agency, BINAURAL DINNER DATE invites strangers to get to know each other better through carefully designed experiences.
BDD invites genuine applications from individuals looking for love, existing couples who simply want a different dating experience or friends who want to experience the interactive audio performance.
In the experience, participants are set up on genuine dates – with their partners, friends or complete strangers – while a voice in their ears, as well as a Waiter and a Matchmaker, guide them through the curious urban ritual known as dating.
You can bring your own date, or we will find one for you.
For further details on the projects, check the ZU-UK website.
For further information about the Sound/Image 2023 visit here.
The Centre for Creative Futures and the Sound & Image Festival at the University of Greenwich presentWithin Touching Distance, Binaural Dinner Date and Radio Ghost in partnership with the Institute for Inclusive Communities & Environments
Exploring the importance of touch, WITHIN TOUCHING DISTANCE takes one audience member at a time through a journey from childhood to adulthood and old age through the medium of a bedtime routine. The artwork combines an immersive VR and spatialised binaural audio-world with a live, intimate one-on-one performance, in which a caring choreography of touch is received from the performer and synchronised with the VR experience.
WITHIN TOUCHING DISTANCE is a one-on-one live performance that combines human touch, spatial audio, VR synchronisation and is part of a larger research project exploring the role of XR and human touch in digital mental health therapies. The project has recently been awarded one of the first ever Inclusive Innovation Awards and received a special mention by the Jury at Sheffield DocFest Alternate Realities Competition for the courageous application of its “innovative multidisciplinary approach to challenge audiences in a way that is specific to its form”.
For further details on the projects, check the ZU-UK website.
For further information about the Sound/Image 2023 visit here.
The Centre for Creative Futures and the Sound & Image Festival at the University of Greenwich presentWithin Touching Distance, Binaural Dinner Date and Radio Ghost in partnership with the Institute for Inclusive Communities & Environments
Creative Futures Hub is delighted to presentDO AS YOU’RE TOLD?– A 3-day symposium of research into audio-led & instruction-based performance practice in public and non-public spaces.
Join us for a symposium on the book project Do As You’re Told? Conversations with ZU-UK About Instruction-based Performance Practice which celebrates and critiques the multi-award-winning theatre and digital art company ZU-UK’s work while foregrounding the significance of instruction-based practice as a distinct artistic approach, situating it within wider arts contexts, including and beyond immersive practices.
Do As You’re Told? is a 3-day programme of talks, workshops and performances on instruction-based performance practice, human touch and sound as main mediums of participation. It will run alongside SOUND/IMAGE 23, hosted by Creative Futures and the Practice Research Hub.
Symposium curated by:
Josephine Machon (Middlesex)
Persis Jadé Maravala (ZU-UK)
Jorge Lopes Ramos (University of Greenwich)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: TICKETS ARE FREE, BUT MUST BE BOOKED FOR EACH DAY SEPARATELY.
Though still a niche and burgeoning form, instruction-based work has become increasingly prevalent, with the lockdowns of the global pandemic seeing to its rise in online formats. This has led to an urgent need to analyse the ethics of this work; to consider the politics, as much as the practices, of asking for, giving, and taking ‘control’. This festival creates space for an examination of the relationship between ‘instructions’ as participatory tools and ‘instruction’ as a wider project, conceiving of art as a platform through which social knowledge and imagination are transmitted. It offers time to explore the role of intimacy, trust, caretaking and ‘belonging’ in any interaction that engages audiences in instruction-led ways. What must be foregrounded when broaching this subject is the way in which, to date, the aims, aesthetics and impacts of instruction-led practice have been circumscribed in the UK by whiteness, maleness and middle-classness – in ideology, production and consumption. This raises important questions about who is seen to, or is ‘allowed to’, instruct; who is invited in as audience-participant to follow those instructions; and how far the means and modes by which they are invited in are inclusive and accessible.
The aim of the Do As You’re Told? Festival is to address these questions in nuanced ways, and to redress the imbalance in representation through the ‘voices’ invited to debate the issues. The symposium, as part of the wider festival of research/practice, foreshadows the book project, Do As You’re Told?: Conversations with ZU-UK About Instruction-based Performance Practice, conceived and edited by Machon, Maravala and Ramos.
DAYT attendees will have the opportunity to experience 3 artworks by ZU-UK – the London preview of the project WITHIN TOUCHING DISTANCE following a sold-out run at the Sheffield DocFest, as well as BINAURAL DINNER DATE and the 2022 Lumen Prize Winner RADIO GHOST.
For further details on the projects, check the ZU-UK website.
For further information about the Sound/Image 2023 visit here.
The Centre for Creative Futures and the Sound & Image Festival at the University of Greenwich presentWithin Touching Distance, Binaural Dinner Date and Radio Ghost in partnership with the Institute for Inclusive Communities & Environments
