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Photograph courtesy Robin Deacon
Robin Deacon

Text-based: medium/dense, Performance, Interdisciplinary

SIZE OF COMPANY
1–3 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Robin Deacon

ARTISTIC POLICY
Robin Deacon creates topical location-specific performance with the application of journalistic and documentary approaches to devising processes.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'Weirdly confrontational and engagingly paranoid.' The Sunday Times

'His provocative approach… demonstrated the radical potential of the performance space.' BBC

CURRENT PRODUCTION
Prototypes A multimedia performance exploring personal interconnections of architecture, memory, location, travel and the passage of time from the perspective of model railway enthusiasts (60–90 mins, 1–2 on the road)

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Dispatches A residency-based performance concept utilising a journalistic approach to devising. In each instance, a performance is produced simultaneously, and in response to a given country’s election campaign.

Un-cinematic A collaborative project involving live dubbing, sound and action by performers to accompany a projected film thematically linked to the specific location where the performance occurs.

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
A series of contextualising lectures and practical workshops in relation to specific performances and the artist’s general practice.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 Spain, USA (Whatever Happened to Colin Powell?)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Ongoing from mid-2007.