On the first floor of a disused department store in the middle of Nuremberg’s pedestrian zone, the four performers from Bastard Assignments create a living situation: a house. There is a kitchen, a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom – here now equipped with furniture from the Nuremberg region, without walls, with potential for manoeuvring. In this visually and sonically open situation, Bastard Assignments will live an artificially staged ‘day’ under the observation of the audience. As the day progresses the years wind forward from 1950 to the present day. The audience can watch as people, places and time periods slowly develop. The ordinary domestic rituals of eating, cleaning, washing, cooking juxtaposed with absurd choreographies that tell stories of love and sex; relationships, families and death.
Bastard Assignments are Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley and Josh Spear, four performers who make experimental music. They work collaboratively and have developed a shared practice that includes concert music, movement work, online work, text, video and improvisation. The four members met in 2012 while studying composition at Trinity Laban and began organizing performances of their own. HOUSE is their first long duration work.




SENSORY INFORMATION
Location & surroundings
The former Kaufhof is staged on the ground floor, a large, wide shop area, which is delimited by individual, newly built partition walls. The stage is clearly defined in the centre.
Duration
The two performances last 8 hours each. The audience can come and go as they please.
Recording
There will be video, sound and photo recordings.
Sensory stimuli
Interaction: The audience can move freely around the stage.
Visual: A visually dense collection of furniture and other homely interiors, extravagant costumes. Occasional nudity.
Light: Simple, slow light changes
Sounds: A constantly evolving sound field of everyday actions, instruments and conversations
Smell: Food is prepared in the music installation.
Themes: Family, generations, 20th century
Seating possibilities
There are different ways to sit and lie down, with and without a backrest. During the performance you can move freely and leave and re-enter the venue.
Language
British-English
Contact persons
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