Alex Kelly
Alex Kelly is a theatre & games maker, writer, performer and mentor. He creates performance and participatory projects that connect the territories of theatre, games, conversation, installation and digital media. Since 2023 he has been making projects under the name Voyager 3. From 1995–2023 he was Co-Artistic Director of Sheffield-based, internationally acclaimed theatre company Third Angel, which toured extensively throughout the UK and internationally. He is an associate of Lisbon-based international theatre collective Má Criação.
Alex is a serial collaborator and an experienced educator, and regularly mentors other artists and theatre companies. He has a PhD in autobiographical and documentary theatre, and is Reader in Theatre & Performance at Leeds Beckett University. He has taught at numerous Universities and other institutions across the UK and internationally. He regularly presents at conferences in the UK and abroad, and publishes writing and drawing about devising, interdisciplinary performance and autobiographical theatre. Third Angel’s performance texts are published by Bloomsbury, and on the company’s web archive.
Bunker Talks
This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue.
Originally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists, writers, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020, over 150 talks have been hosted by Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded, edited, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue, capturing how artists, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/
Main Event Contact and URL:
Professor Michael Pinchbeck: m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/talk-154/
