Presented in association with White Label

There was a boy and a girl and somehow they met. Lily doesn’t get out much. Tom finds it hard to meet new people. And now they’re having their first date. Lily cooks a three course meal. Tom brings flowers and wine. On the surface, everything seems fine. But in the modern world, dating is a surprisingly complex thing with a lot of unwritten rules.

There are certain things you shouldn’t do on a first date.
And then there are certain things you shouldn’t do at all.

Taboo is a dark comedy that allows us to better get acquainted with the skeletons in our cupboards.

Cast: Lisa Fox, John Morton

Written by John Morton
Directed by Sarah Baxter
Produced by Lisa Fox and Stephen Tadgh
Set Design by Helen McGinty
Costume Design by Triona Humphries
Lighting Design by Maggie Donovan
Stage Managed by Sinead Heavin

February 15th - February 27th 2016
 

PRESENTED by WHITE LABEL

November 2015

NARRATIVE TECHNOLOGIES/

TECHNOLOGICAL NARRATIONS

Workshop with Identity Problem Group

10 am – 1pm

Wood Quay Venue

Narrative technologies is a workshop presentation conducted by IP Group members: Łukasz Twarkowski (director), Bogumił Misala (composer) and Jakub Lech (visual artist). Its participants will explore how the emerging technologies and media practices can be used to form the new storytelling modes in theatre and performing arts.

Identity Problem Group is an interdisciplinary artistic collective, combining visual and performing arts as well as dramaturgy with architecture, video and sound art.

*****

OVERRIDE

Rehearsed reading

2pm - 3pm

Wood Quay Venue

A new play about our relationship with technology.

Written by Stacey Gregg, directed by Sophie Motley with Judith Roddy and Raymond Scannell.

Trust. Future. Love. Technology. 

*****

KANTOR/TECHNOLOGIES

A specially commissioned short documentary about theatre artist Tadeusz Kantor

3.15pm - 3:45pm

Wood Quay Venue

Polish avant-garde artist Tadeusz Kantor was one of those who imagined his theatre as a memory machine – software for fixing the past. The only obstacle was the imperfect body of an actor.

In the movie by Ewa Hevelke and Michał Januszaniec, Kantor’s theatre strategies are presented in the context of the works of the contemporary artists incorporating new media into their practice, like Katie Mitchell, Rimini Protokoll collective, Rabih Mroué and 59 Productions company.

*****

A STAGE AFTER US: KEYNOTE SPEECH & PANEL DISCUSSION

With Akhila Krishnan and guests.

3:45pm

Wood Quay Venue

Akhila Krishnan discusses the opportunities and challenges of using multimedia technology in performing arts.

Akhila is a visual artist, film-maker and a senior assistant designer with 59 Productions.Credits include Night Train, Olympic Opening Ceremony, The Perfect American and The Baroque Story.

Followed by Panel Discussion

With Akhila Krishnan and guests.

*****

BYOB - Get Saturday Night Started

GRINDR: A LOVE STORY

A Rehearsed Reading

7pm-8pm

Steambox @ IMOCA

DIP – multimedia show

8pm

Free event

Steambox @ IMOCA

BYOB and get your Saturday night started.

Enjoy a reading of a play about technology and sexuality followed by a multimedia show from Identity Problem Group.

Will smartphones change the way we love? Piotr Trojan’s new play is based on a series of authentic meetings arranged through a dating app Grindr.

DIP is an audiovisual performance, in which three random streams: word, music and image, provoke a perceptual game.

Note:

Daytime Events are in Wood Quay Venue

http://www.woodquayvenue.ie

Evening events are in Steambox @ Irish Museum of Contemporary Art.

http://steambox.imoca.ie

November 8th

WORKSHOP WITH AKHILA KRISHNAN

12pm – 2pm

Akhila Krishnan will walk the participants through a process of making video-content for different scales of show.

*****

'Story Machines'

presented with support from:

Embassy of Poland in Dublin

Theatre Forum

The Festival of Curiosity

Rough Magic

Culture.pl/IAM

November 7th

10 am – 1pm

Wood Quay Venue

'narrative technologies / technology narrations' is a workshop presentation conducted by IP Group members: Łukasz Twarkowski (director), Bogumił Misala (composer) and Jakub Lech (visual artist). Its participants will explore how the emerging technologies and media practices can be used to form the new storytelling modes in theatre and performing arts. Based on numerous examples of IP Group's projects presented in various stages of their development, the workshop will provide the advanced technology tools such as Kinect, Oculus VR or 360° video and will explore their potential for producing the meaning, shaping the aesthetics and encouraging the creativity.

Identity Problem Group is an interdisciplinary artistic collective, combining visual and performing arts as well as dramaturgy with architecture, video and soundart. The group consists of Jakub Lech, Anka Herbut, Łukasz Twarkowski, Bogumił Misala and Piotr Choromański.

IP Group’s domain is improvisation grounded in devised theatre, transmedia activities, performance art, multimedia installations and film. IP endorses activities at the periphery of art and theoretical practice and discourse, opening up to various fields of creative thought and daily life, as well as focusing on the creative process expressed via methodological work, laboratory activities and artistic creation.

ŁUKASZ TWARKOWSKI (born 1983), theatre and film director, scenographer, visual artist. His creative work encompasses theatre and trans-­media activities as well as installations and site-­specific work within multimedia context that aims to expand reality.

BOGUMIŁ MISALA (born  1980), producer and composer, author of sonic arrangements for performances, theatre plays, animations, films and multimedia installations. Freelancer associated with the Polish electronic and experimental music scene. Graduate of the Philosophy Department at Wroclaw University.

JAKUB  LECH  (born 1978), visual artist, VJ, creator of animations, short film forms, and interactive installations. Graduate of the Graphic Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. He received his degree in 2003 in the Artistic Graphic Design and Professional Drawing studio as well as the Intermedia Graphic Design studio. Teaches at the University of Lower Silesia.

15€

November  8th 12pm-2pm

120 min

Akhila Krishnan will walk the participants through a process of making video-content for different scales of show (from small to big as follows) :

a) Collaborations with musicians (MAP/Garden Music)

http://akhilakrishnan.com/2012/03/garden-music/

b) Working at the Fringe in 2014, on "The Dispute"

http://hibrow.tv/player.html?em=A0bWVlbzrY4GFjBJ4i1zZgD6afu0JBuG

c) Working on a show with 59, e.g. Olympics, Great Britain, An American in Paris

Akhila Krishnan is a visual artist, film-maker and a senior assistant designer with 59 Productions. Akhila started working in video design for performance as part of the collaborative MAP project (Music, Art, Performance) run between the RCA and The Guildhall School of Music. Working in collaboration with animateur Rachael Perrin, she created a piece for the opening night of the Surreal House exhibition at the Barbican. Further commissions with the Academy of St. Martins in the fields and other organisations followed.

Akhila has worked with 59 productions on a range of projects. Her first project with the company was the Olympic Opening Ceremony (2012). In particular, she produced a special title card shoot as an option for the creative team.

She then went on to work with 59 on Night Train, a live camera theatre piece directed by Katie Mitchell. The work is devised using techniques developed by 59 Productions and Mitchell over many years of collaborative practice – and can be best described as creating a film live on stage.

Following this, she worked with 59 on The Perfect American (Madrid/London), a new opera by Philip Glass on the life of Disney and The Baroque Story, a new permanent exhibit at Hampton Court Palace.

She is particularly interested in exploring the relationship between material and temporal mediums, and in the politics of memory, history and identity.