Live Archives

This is our project for the Documenting practice workshop. We’re playing a famous tune. Can you name it? we polled our original live audience yesterday. these are their reactions: maria: yes i enjoyed it. (More...)

I’m a theatre director/performance maker who’s currently Artistic Director of CETL(NI): The Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts, an interdisciplinary arts programme at Queen’s University Belfast - one of Queen’s 3 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Too long a title I know. I’m making up a diverse and eclectic load of interdisciplinary projects and performances here and also running a new interdisciplinary arts MA experience which has modules called “Adventures in Interdisciplinarity” and “Further Adventures”. I like to play. This Is Not My Best Side…….

Here’s a summary of my thoughts whilst on the train to Liverpool yesterday: All in all it’s a relief to take off the big heavy coat of other stuff that needs doing all the time and spend a week immersed in creativity and with creative (More...)

Today at the crime scene house Daisy heard a “godawful racket” while I participated in a seance for three dead men. It was the same event. In Kurosawa’s film Rashomon, conflicting accounts of a rape and murder are given by four people, one of whom (More...)

I should start writing now as there’s only a little while left. The words appear a long time after they are typed, but this only reduces the amount of time left to write. Today we made lots of sounds, some musical and some found/field ones. (More...)

Live Archives Workshops Day 1 – 02.04.07 (More...)

C0-director theybreakinpieces. Researching PhD in electronic music within cross disciplinary performance at Newcastle University. Member HearImprov Ensemble. Virb. Sound, movement and media practitioner. 28. (Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page)

Caroline Pugh is a musician based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She sings traditional songs and makes experimental noises with her vocal chords, plays medieval harps, gives workshops for community projects, teaches and much much (More...)

theybreakinpieces are three artists (mona mccarthy, paul stapleton and nick williams) who are involved in multiple forms of cross-disciplinary collaboration. we are currently investigating a range of environmental interactions conducted through the media of conversation, improvised performance, and audio-visual recording technologies. these interventions take place in a wide range of urban and rural environments providing opportunities to explore the collision of localized academic, social and geographical settings. we have received multiple grants from the arts council of england and other funding bodies for activities that include the creation of site-specific durational performances and performative lectures, as well as the delivery of workshops and symposiums on collaborative live arts practices. (More...)