Seeing This Place Differently
Join Glasgow-based artist Craig McCorquodale in a series of outdoor performance actions, using the local area as our canvas and the streets as our stage. Through a series of playful tasks, we will use text, image and shared walks to disrupt the usual rhythms of public space and understand how artistic interventions can give somewhere familiar new meaning.
From group walks to self-portraits in the woods to site-specific theatre, this workshop will be a memorable opportunity to try something new and make the kind of things we might deem impossible happen – even for a moment.
Seeing This Place Differently invites you to consider your personal connection to the place in which you live, and encourages a more audacious way of connecting to somewhere familiar.
WHO: Participants aged 14 and over.
WHEN: Tuesday September 9th
TIME: 10am to 2pm
WHERE: Llanrumney Hall, Ball Road, Llanrumney, CF3 4JJ
ACCESS: While our outdoor workshop space may have some accessibility limitations, we're committed to making adaptations wherever possible to accommodate everyone's needs. Please email chantal@commonwealththeatre.co.uk to communicate any access requirements.
A £5 deposit is required, this will be refunded upon attendance of the workshop.
Craig McCorquodale makes work for both the theatre and public space. He invites all kinds of people into his projects and hopes that the live moment might help us challenge the perceptions we have of each other, asking what a new civic theatre could look like.
His work 24 Things to Tell You is a durational artwork where a different intervention occurs in public space every hour of the day, including all the way through the night, working with local people to turn the local area into a living gallery. He tours his work nationally and internationally and is excited about how private lives can take over public space.
