WORKSHOP: SITE-SPECIFIC THEATRE-MAKING
Friday 13th March | 2:00–5:30pm (with break)
Led by Peter Cant (Hooligan Art Community) & Scamp (Kernow Drag Collective)
Donation-based (No one will be turned away due to lack of funds)
This practical, research-informed workshop introduces Peter and Scamp’s methodologies for developing radical performance site-specifically. The session frames site-specific performance as a queer spatial practice, drawing on DIY methodologies to interrogate how environments produce, regulate, and can be reclaimed by marginalised identities.
Through a combination of embodied exercises, case-studies and discussion, participants will gain tools and insight into how to actively collaborate with the given conditions of space, time, and place, including curiosity tasks and cinematic framing techniques that reveal the hidden dramaturgies of a space.
Participants will also be invited to engage with the project case study, Can You Float?, by Kernow Drag Collective, currently being developed in a disused swimming pool. This includes an opportunity to contribute to the project’s ongoing queer oral history of the pool.
Everyone welcome. No prior experience required.
About the facilitators:
Peter Cant is the artistic director of Hooligan Art Community (Bunker Cabaret, The Hooligan Project) founded in Kyiv in 2019. He creates work internationally and has been writing and directing site-specific theatre and opera for twenty years.
@petecant @hooligan_art_community
Scamp is a designer/drag artist and puppet maker and shaker, with a focus on site-specific, queer and accessibility-led work. They are co-founder of Blooom Cornwall and Falmouth Queer club and host/run nights regularly with Kernow Drag Collective.
@scamp4u @kernowdragcollective
The workshop and research are funded and supported by the Cornwall Pride Empowerment Fund as part of Can You Float?, a performance project being developed at Falmouth’s former leisure centre, Ships & Castles, now known as Pendennis Leisure. This project centres on the swimming pool as a disappearing “third place” (a social environment outside of work and home) with a focus on reimagining spaces for queer liberation and reclaiming through performance using Drag, performance and oral histories. There is another opportunity to engage with the Can You Float? sharing at Pendennis Leisure the week prior on Sunday, 8th March. This will be an informal sharing of the group's ongoing discoveries and another chance to contribute to the ongoing oral histories of the pool. Further information on Kernow Drag Collective Instagram.
Access: We will be working in The Engine Room at The Ladder in Redruth, the venue has access via a ramp and level flooring throughout. The room on the first floor is accessed by lift or stairs. There is an accessible toilet on the ground floor. There will be a range of seating available. We will be working with a range of physical and writing activities and endeavour to adapt these as needed. If you have any specific access requirements, please get in contact before the workshop.