our researches for OCEAN have already taken us to some interesting places, exploring everything from the experience, poetics & politics of crowds to the logistics of clearing pool debris. 2 books that have played a big role so far: Prue Williams: Victoria Baths: Manchester's Water Palace
Leanne Shapton: Swimming Studies
another very important bit of reading is an article by Elaine Aston exploring her experience of the Brazlian Grupo XIX de Teatro's staging of their work Hysteria in Victoria Baths. The analytical article, Swimming in Histories of Gender Oppression: Grupo XIX de Teatro’s Hysteria, both evokes the experience of the Baths as a performance space redolent with gendered history, & how the Grupo XIX work exploring the testimonies of incarcerated Brazilian women dialogues with this. This writing crossed several pathways that have been important so far in how we've thought about this work (gender, crowd, audience/performer/space relationships, etc). The article can be downloaded & read here: http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/54676/1/displayFulltext5.pdf we hope to write more fully on how these elements of research & others have affected our process, so keep watching this space! Comments are closed.
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