Year: 2017
Project Title: INTERROGATING SPACE
Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
Type: Interdisciplinary workshop
Workshop initiator: The Envelope Room
Workshop leaders: Ephemera Collective – Miljana Zeković, Višnja Žugić & Grid Iron – Ben Harrison, Jude Doherty
Workshop participants: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita, Gillian Argo, Rachel O’Neill, Ali Low, Sophie Ferguson, Heather Marshall, Ali Anderson-Dyer, Alison Irwin, Katy Wilson, Jen McGinley, George Tarbuck, Tim Reid
In collaboration with The Envelope Room – an umbrella organization that looks after all of the types of performance designers (including set, costume, lighting and video designers) across Scotland, Ephemera Collective has together with The Grid Iron (a site-specific theatre company) created an interdisciplinary event for diverse groups of interested parties. The workshop consisted of two parts in which all of the workshop leaders exchanged previous experiences and shared methodologies. ‘Listening to Space’ and ‘The Water Inside’ were two dramatically different, yet intertwined and eventually – interdependent parts of the project that has marked the participants’ overall experience as ‘layered’, ‘spiritual’ and ‘spatially dominant’. The event took place in Dr Bell’s School Swimming Baths in Edinburgh, in 2017.
Call for participants by The Envelope Room
Interrogating Space
Workshop Guide
Grid Iron Theatre Company, The Envelope Room & Ephemera Collective are collaborating to host 2 days of workshops exploring approaches to designing found spaces. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone with experience or interest in the areas of site responsive theatre, installation art and spatial design to discover different approaches to interact creatively with space. We are delighted to welcome the Ephemera Collective to Scotland from Serbia and are excited to host this unique opportunity for theatre designers, theatre makers, architects and interested artists to come together to look at spatial design together.
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Workshop Description
The workshops will take place in the former Great Junction Street Public School Baths, Edinburgh.
Friday 3rd March
10am – 1pm
Listening to the Space
Ben Harrison, Co-Artistic Director of Grid Iron will lead a half-day workshop entitled Listening to The Space, which through a series of practical, visual and sensual exercises interrogates the space we are working in to bring out its unique character in relation to the personalities of the workshop participants.
1pm – 2pm
Lunch (provided)
2-6pm
The Water Inside
In the second phase of this creative process participants will be encouraged to search for ‘The Water Inside’ together with Miljana Zeković and Višnja Žugić, members of Ephemera Collective, Serbia. Through detecting, embracing and creatively developing potentials of space, the group will be introduced to specific method of delayering of spatial memory, narratives and ambience.
6pm (optional)
Light refreshments and informal reflections on the day
Saturday 4th March
10am – 6pm (lunch provided)
Today we will focus on responses to the previous days’ workshops and both Ben Harrison & Ephemera will lead the day. By joining and overlapping the experiences from both workshops, participants’ will be, guided towards a creative engagement with the accumulated qualities of the space. Creating an intervention that will bring out a true nature of Space as a Protagonist, the workshop series will result in a true and practical interrogation of the site. There will time built in to reflect on the workshops and enquire about anything that may have been provoked through the sessions.
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How to Apply
We have space for a maximum of 12 participants. The workshops are aimed at designers, theatre makers but may also be of interest to installation artists or architecture graduates also. We regret this workshop is not open to performers or students.
Interested applicants should send a CV and a short explanation of why they wish to take part to hello@enveloperoom.org.uk by midnight on Sunday 5th February. Participants will be selected to ensure that we have a good mix of experience and disciplines represented. All applicants will be notified by Wednesday 8th February.
Please note: There is no cost to attend the workshop. We will provide lunch on both days but are unable to cover travel, however please contact us if this is a barrier for you.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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