TITLE:

Revolutions In Form

CLIENT:

Bluecoat

CATEGORIES:

DATE:

October 2010

DELIVERABLES:

  • 3 live experimental language performances

WHO WE DID IT WITH:

WHAT WE’VE DONE

  • Laura Dockril at RiF 3. Photo © Charlie Charlton
    Laura Dockril at RiF 3. Photo © Charlie Charlton
  • Hannah Silva, RiF 3. Photo © Charlie Charlton
    Hannah Silva, RiF 3. Photo © Charlie Charlton
  • Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Ross Sutherland, RiF 3. Photo © Charlie Charlton
    Ross Sutherland, RiF 3. Photo © Charlie Charlton
  • Live drawing by Sketchybeast and Neil Keeting processed by Sam Meech. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Live drawing by Sketchybeast and Neil Keeting processed by Sam Meech. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Mark Greenwood at RiF 2. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Mark Greenwood at RiF 2. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Markus Soukup records audience Chinese Whispers session at RiF 2. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Markus Soukup records audience Chinese Whispers session at RiF 2. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Lizzie Nunnery's Almanac Collective at RiF 1. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Lizzie Nunnery's Almanac Collective at RiF 1. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Lorena Rivera De Beer. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Lorena Rivera De Beer. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
  • Lorena Rivera De Beer. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz
    Lorena Rivera De Beer. Photo © Alex Wolkowitz

INFO:

An occasional series of events exploring contemporary language in performance, for Liverpool’s major interdisciplinary arts institution.  The programming aims to contextualise contemporary poetry performance, by pitching it among other forms – including lecture, film, contemporary song and performance writing.

Revolutions in Form #3: Caroline Bergvall, Ross Sutherland, Hannah Silva, Laura Dockrill

Revolutions in Form #2: John O’Shea, Keston Sutherland, Karen McLeod, Chiz Turnross, Nathan Jones with Scott Spencer & Carl Brown,  and Markus Soukup

Revolutions in Form #1: Lorena Rivera De Beer, Mark Greenwood, Ross Sutherland, Tim Clare, Lizzie Nunnery with Almanac Folk Collective, Markus Soukup, and Nathan Jones with Sketchybeast, Sam Meech, Neil Keeting

TESTIMONIAL:

Excellent and risk taking. It is important that many forms of writing and performance can be presented in British culture like this.
- Caroline Bergvall

Revolutions in Form opened a dialogue up between performers and audiences from different areas of poetry and performance, and discussed how each different performer was engaged with the notion of the Voice, and its transformational power onstage. What Revolutions in Form offers is a chance to bring poets and their audiences into conversation with one another, and in doing so, try to make an intelligent presentation on the scene as a whole: a comment on the state-of -the-art.
- Ross Sutherland

A brilliantly diverse and original line up that complimented the craft of poetry and its performance. It was interesting to see how others navigate their way around language, tone and delivery. I learnt a lot that evening.
- Laura Dockrill

The ultimate experimental poetry slam. - Loopevil Press, The Official Liverpool Student Union Newspaper