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Liverpool White
Photograph Alexandra Wolkiewicz
grace surman

Live art, Installation-based performance, Site-specific

SIZE OF COMPANY
2

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Performer and Director
Grace Surman

ARTISTIC POLICY
To produce entertaining, accessible and thought-provoking work. Working from a physical and choreographic core, Grace Surman’s work is interested in how we live and experience the world through constraints and conditions around us – be it work, gender, age. The drive of the work is to explore and excavate these conditions, drawing on theatrical devices, processed-based performance actions, feminist theories and contemporary culture.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'An edgy tightrope between daft hilarity and something poignant.' The Herald, Glasgow (White)

'An important component in Scotland’s performing arts scene.' Tramway, Glasgow

'Unsettling as it is comic… defiant.' Live Art Magazine

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
…White Surman examines the role of assistant to an absent magician, and has to conjure moments of transformation and everyday enlightenment from the materials surrounding her. Contains nudity. (50 mins, 1 on stage, 2 on the road)

Slow Thinking This work meditates on acts of becoming; attempting to occupy identities, names or labels – becoming the natural, becoming wild, becoming old, becoming furniture, becoming bird. Contains nudity. (50 mins, 1 on stage, 2 on the road)

Slow Moving Stop-motion film work for projection. Presenting material from the development of the work Slow Thinking; re-contextualised and reconsidered for camera. (10 mins projected on a loop)

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Illustrated talk/lecture about processes of devising the work. Practical workshops in physical movement and generating performance material.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2005 Australia, Belgium (…White)
2006 Finland (…White)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All year round.