Speculation in Unimagined Spaces (2 episodes with Adrian Kear)

'Speculation in Unimagined Spaces' is a podcast series with Ewan Forster and Christopher Heighes.

Trig Point 51.4134° N, 0.2115° W
February 3 - 23 2020

Trig Point is a research project by artists Forster and Heighes that explores perspectives on the design and use of pedagogical space and the technical and material resourcing required for innovative theatre making and performance practice across the educational, architectural and planning sectors.

It used language and adapted instrumentation from the field of land surveying, combined with specialist input from the spheres of architecture, education, and environmental studies.

Trig Point plotted not only how the college buildings function practically, but also how they position themselves in the minds and imagination of staff, students, and visitors. It also looked at how less tangible factors concerning atmosphere, social structures and spatial dynamics might offer up a more provocative set of coordinates from which to navigate a course of study.

The researchers used film and installation, a performance lecture, bespoke map/publication, podcast and structural intervention to recalibrate visitors senses of location awareness and directional finding. A fluid, deliberately playful, reconnaissance that analysed not only benchmarks, supervision and gradation, but the value too of error, inaccuracy, slackness and variation.

During the residency Forster and Heighes made a series of podcasts in which they interviewed staff. The podcasts invited responses and reflections on the main themes of the project, namely an exploration of the material and spatial resourcing of performance teaching in the contemporary creative academy.

In these 2 podcasts, we hear from Professor Adrian Kear, Programme Development Director in Performance at Wimbledon College of Arts. In the first podcast he reflects on the studio and performance space. The second discusses collaboration and theatre materiality.

See https://forsterandheighes.podbean.com/e/the-nature-of-studio-and-performance-space/

and

https://forsterandheighes.podbean.com/e/collaboration-and-theatre-materiality/

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