LIVE NOW FESTIVAL 2023: All aboard! Creating an international Mystery (coach) Trip on Zoom – a workshop with Jason Crouch, Louise Mari and Kerry Underhill.
Zoom workshop
With Jason Crouch, Kerry Underhill and Louise Mari from the Mystery Trip team.
Zoom – love it or hate it – has become a fundamental part of our lives over the last few years and looks set to stay. Connecting millions of people all over the world for work, events and socialising, Zoom has also famously become a platform for live performance and creative experience, inviting artists to expand our sense of what theatre and performance can be, and how and where we can experience it.
Join creative technologist Jason Crouch, disability and welfare rights activist Kerry Underhill and pioneering theatre maverick Louise Mari as they share suggestions, practical tips and their experiences of hacking and transforming Zoom to create a series of unique live international mystery trips – each one stopping at different surprise destinations. All enjoyed from the comfort of your home.
You can watch recordings of the three Mystery Trip performances that took place in March 2021 here: https://nigelandlouise.com/Mystery-Trip
Limited capacity.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Louise Mari
Louise is co-founder of Shunt and the Shunt Lounge, and one half of performance duo Nigel & Louise with Nigel Barrett. Nigel & Louise are pioneering theatre mavericks, making wild, bold, visual performance for people who don’t really like theatre and unusual theatrical experiences for those who do.
Kerry Underhill
Kerry is a disability and welfare rights activist.
Jason Crouch
Jason is an artist, events producer and digital consultant with a particular interest in live performance. In theatre he has worked as a producer and production manager for large scale, site-specific performance, and as both a technical specialist and playwright for more intimate work.
Jason recently completed his PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, where his research investigated digitally mediated intimacy and how communications technologies can be thought of as one-to-one performance. He has spoken at Ars Electronica and contributed to a number of technology panels on the theme of arts and technology. He has collaborated with theatres and digital agencies (such as Contact in Manchester, and Culturehub in NYC) to create complex, multi-sited live events mediated through the
Internet. He has designed and delivered participatory workshops, and has worked in live events – from corporate conferences to immersive theatre – for more than two decades.
ABOUT THE LIVE NOW COMMISSIONS
Mystery Trip by Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari in collaboration with Kerry Underhill
We don’t know what we’re doing
We don’t know where we’re going
But we do know that we need to get out of here
Come with us
Mystery Trip is an epic digital excursion created by pioneering theatre mavericks Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari in collaboration with disability and welfare rights activist Kerry Underhill and a gang of people confined to their homes due to chronic health conditions.
Working with composers Jon Mcleod and Anna Clock, technologist Jason Crouch and video designer Andrew Crofts, the digital bus will offer you a unique live mystery trip – each one stopping at different surprise destinations. All from the comfort of your own home.
We will stop off at exciting places, meet amazing people, join in wild experiences, fight over the back seat, eat our sandwiches and inevitably leave someone behind at the petrol station. The wearing of dressing gowns is encouraged.