On 8 March 2006, Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes presented a workshop for the Presence Project.

workshop outline

Since 1997, Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes have created a series of productions that proposed new strategies within the form, function and placement of performance in work employing a variety of media, from radio broadcast to surveillance CCTV. In this workshop, which includes audio and video material from several of their recent multi-site works, they examine the implications of these strategies for notions of presence and absence, for both performers and spectators alike. They reflect upon their working practices, new forms of dramaturgy, the shifting role of audience, reorientations in the technique of the performer, and questions of documentation. Pearson and Brookes will show previously little seen material including graphic representations of their performance scenarios, footage from projects in Germany and west Wales, and the experimental DVD-ROM of their performance work Carrying Lyn. The presentation will be informal, with an opportunity for discussion.

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