Debunked is a diverse collective of performance makers who build work from a sustained open and shared dialogue. Engaging with contemporary debates from the world we must exist in, our work evolves constantly, finding the mode, which can communicate meaning.
The performance we make poses our own questions about our collective contemporary existence for an audience who are invited into the work itself. We make work that exists within a context of our digital age, framed by our own experience.
Our first work Whose Cloud is it Anyway? is a vital attempt to comprehend the digital landscape that exists above our heads. Vast amounts of our data, our social interactions and information increasingly exist in digital clouds. Even our books, films and art are being transferred and uploaded by Google and Apple, who now seek our trust in them as custodians to the future of our culture. This durational performance work is made up of that same information, relayed and remixed alongside multiple narratives exploring the necessity for human traces in this digital age. An absent father is manifest in the postcards he leaves as bookmarks and a woman silenced online protests atop a roof against an unjust regime.
Company Members:
Elizabeth West
Robert Drummer
Prae Homsilpakul
Lauren Irving
Jon McLeod
Arezou Ali
Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso
Sian Rees
Lizzie&Phoebe
Phoebe Walsh is a fellow Performer Creator based in North London. We met at Bretton Hall where we were studying BA Acting during the performance SURVEILLANCE directed by Swen Steinhauser of Hauser Theatre.
For our first collaboration in 2009 we explored the idea of The Hero, The Tragic Hero and societies fascination with the Romanticism of Tragedy.
Phoebe- Lizzie is a VHS copy of The Last of the Mohicans.
Lizzie- I won an Oscar.
Phoebe- The real last of the Mohicans can be seen playing in a shopping centre near...you.
Our second collaboration brought in the talents of Richard Keiss, another Bretton Hall graduate for our work in progress 'The Attention Show'. How to gain attention, how to attract attention and how to use attention.
We have shown our short performances at venues such as Horseplay Arts Club at Proud galleries in Camden, as part of BLOP Festival at Bristol's Arnolfini and at the Flophouse Fringe Festival in Hackney.
www.horseplayartsclub.com
www.arnolfini.org.uk
www.proudcamden.com
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