Upcoming projects
FORGE
by Rachel mars
Barbican Pit Theatre, London,
MAYK Bristol & Horizon Edinburgh in 2023
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FORGE is a three-day installation during which Rachel welds a replica of the stolen Dachau concentation camp gate. Sound artist Dinah Mullen creates a live sound-scape in conversation with the action.
FORGE also features three associated public conversations wherever it is performed, focussing on personal, local, national/international issues of memorial.
http://www.rachelmars.org/forge
PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION TEAM
Conceived and Presented by Rachel Mars
Dramaturg and Co-director Wendy Hubbard
Sound Dinah Mullen
Designer Naomi Kuyck Cohen
Metal Fabricator and Mentor Jeni Cairns
Producer Claire Summerfield at Tandem Works
Production Manager Helen Mugridge
Rabbinical / Judaism Consultancy Jacqueline Nicholls and Rabbi Lev Taylor
Development Mentors Karen Sherman and Helen Paris
Publication Designer Marcos Villalba at Studio Villalba
PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION CREDITS
Commissioned by Transform and Cambridge Junction with support from Stobbs New Ideas Fund. Funded by a Grant from Arts Council England. With support from Chapter Arts Centre, Horizon Showcase, Metal Culture, MGCFutures and Asylum Arts. Originally developed through the Barbican Open Lab programme.
Desert Mother
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If I could I would go, now, to live somewhere otherwise uninhabited, for a year.
Desert Mother is a reflection on realizing that you need to be entirely alone exactly when that is impossible.
It is what I can do instead.
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In the space between responsible parenting and necessary spiritual crisis, this is a project documenting four weeks, in four seasons, in four landscapes: time claimed back to meet myself entirely outside of ongoing human relations.
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The first part of RECOVERY/ DISCONNECT.
