Episodes
Friday May 20, 2016
MAYFEST RADIO SPECIAL
Friday May 20, 2016
Friday May 20, 2016
This episode is a conversation about vulnerability in live performance.
About how artists can present traumatic material whilst looking after ourselves.
About not being consumed by an audience.
And it is full of love.
This episode was commissioned by Bristol Mayfest Radio (the official radio station for the Mayfest Theatre Festival) and Emma is speaking to Selina Thompson, an artist and performer whose production ‘Salt’ is one of the highlights of the festival.
We talk about making autobiographical performance and placing yourself between an audience and the Sun. About self care being a prevention rather than a cure and about the places where trans issues and race issues intersect and the places where they don’t.
Selina Thompson is an artist and performer based in Leeds. Her work is playful, participatory and intimate, focused on the politics of identity, and how this defines our bodies, lives and environments. She has made work for pubs, cafes, hairdressers, toilets, and sometimes even galleries and theatres, including Spill Festival of Performance, The National Theatre Studio, The Birmingham REP, East Street Arts and the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Emma Frankland is an award winning theatre maker and performer. Recently she has been creating performance work based on transgender identities & the politics of transition through her None of Us is Yet a Robot project. Throughout her work, there is a shared theatrical language that focuses on honesty, action & a playfully destructive DIY aesthetic.
You can keep up to date with Emma's movements through the None of Us is Yet a Robot project at www.notyetarobot.co.uk or @elbfrankland on twitter and with Selina at http://selinathompson.co.uk and on twitter @selinanthompson
Opening music was by Visitors and closing music (as ever) by Señor Coconut y Su Conjuto.
Some things we mentioned in the conversation were:
Salt: http://totaltheatre.org.uk/ship-shape-and-bristol-fashion-the-story-of-salt/
Rituals For Change:http://notyetarobot.co.uk/portfolio-item/rituals-for-change/
Mayfest: http://mayfestbristol.co.uk
The Cop in the Head: Augusto Boal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal
Forest Fringe: http://www.forestfringe.co.uk
Buzzcut Festival: https://glasgowbuzzcut.wordpress.com
Caravan Showcase: http://caravanshowcase.org.uk
Sue MacLaine - Can I Start Again Please?: http://www.suemaclaine.com/can-i-start-again-please/
Woodland Secrets: http://woodlandsecrets.co/episode/51
Trans Pride Brighton: http://transpridebrighton.tumblr.com
Simon Bowes writing about Rituals for Change: http://simonbowes.tumblr.com/post/144555756602/0212-now16-week-1-emma-frankland-rituals-for
Thursday May 05, 2016
HOLDING HANDS (SAFETY MAP SPECIAL II)
Thursday May 05, 2016
Thursday May 05, 2016
In this episode, Emma is again in Brighton, talking with performance maker Rosana Cade about identity and difference. About holding hands in public space; performances in public space; fear in public space and the Brighton Safety Map Project.
Also about weird hugs and kissing your cousins.
We were invited to record this episode by Pink Fringe in conjunction with The Safety Map, a project they were facilitating across the recent bank holiday weekend at the Marlborough Theatre. It was an invitation for people to share experiences of anti-social behaviour in Brighton as well as spaces where they feel welcomed and celebrated.
Rosana says ”I am a performance maker based in Glasgow. Whilst the form of my performance work varies, and emerges in relation to the specific process or context I am engaging with, it is firmly rooted in a queer discourse and straddles live art and activism. My performances happen in various contexts including theatres, public spaces, as well as club and cabaret settings.
I was part of the Spill National Showcase in 2013, a National Theatre of Scotland ‘Auteur’ in 2014 and I am an Artsadmin artist bursary recipient 2014/15. My work has been shown extensively across the UK with over twenty organisations including the National Theatre in London, at Summerhall as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014, Contact Theatre – Manchester, the Arches in Glasgow, Forest Fringe, Battersea Arts Centre, and at international venues including Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon, Frascati in Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre in Hong Kong.
I also collaborate regularly with my partner Eilidh MacAskill in our live art riot girl boi band, Double Pussy Clit Fu*k to create club and cabaret performances. And I am co-founder of //BUZZCUT// festival.”
You can find links below or follow the Safety Map Project online at #safetymap and you can follow Rosana at @RosanaCade
And you can keep up to date with Emma's movements through the None of Us is Yet a Robot project at www.notyetarobot.co.uk or @elbfrankland on twitter.
Opening music was by Kraftwerk and Closing music by Señor Coconut y Su Conjuto
Some things we mentioned in the conversation were:
The Safety Map - https://www.facebook.com/events/1780845748818488/
The Marlborough, Brighton - http://www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
Walking / Holding - https://rosanacadedotcom.wordpress.com
Judith Butler - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler
Casey Plett - http://topsidepress.com/titles/a-safe-girl-to-love/
Rituals for Change at the Yard Theatre (10 - 14 May) - http://notyetarobot.co.uk/portfolio-item/rituals-for-change/
Advice about reporting hate crime - https://www.gov.uk/report-hate-crime
LGBT Support
Gendered Intelligence: http://genderedintelligence.co.uk
Stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk
Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard - http://switchboard.org.uk
See you next time.
xxx