Workshop with Artist Collective Gob Squad
Thursday, February 17, 2022The Factory, BCB Campus
9:00 am
Join us for a movement-packed morning with internationally renowned artist collective Gob Squad! This workshop offers an insight into the strategies that Gob Squad use when creating new works. The session will explore Gob Squad's approach to text, improvisation and game-play. Two members of the collective will introduce some of their methods which blend autobiographical, personal and the political.
The workshop will take place in the factory performance space as part of Nina Tecklenburg’s Postdramatic and Contemporary Theater in Berlin. Participation is limited to a total of 15 students. Please email to: [email protected]
ABOUT GOB SQUAD
Hello. We are Gob Squad, a group of UK and German artists. We make performances and videos which search for beauty in the everyday, and look for words of wisdom from a passing stranger. We are an artists collective, the seven core members working collaboratively on the concept, direction and performance of our work. Other artists, performers and technicians are invited to collaborate on particular projects.
We try and explore the point where theater meets art, media and real life. As well as theatres and galleries, we place our work at the heart of urban life – in houses, shops, underground stations, car parks, hotels or directly on the street. Everyday life and magic, banality and utopia, reality and entertainment are all set on a collision course and the audience are often asked to step beyond their traditional role as passive spectators and bear witness to the results.
We started the company in Nottingham in 1994 but are now more or less based in Berlin, although we regularly make and present work in the UK, organized through our Nottingham office. Our work is regularly shown throughout Europe, and we’ve toured to all the continents apart from Antarctica.
Email: [email protected]