Suffolk-raised artist Robert Pacitti is developing a series of large-scale, public outdoor events exploring notions of ‘home’, that become a feature film for 2012.
Building on Pacitti Company's international reputation for developing experimental theatre and live art, highlights include an entire street painted black to form a stage and meeting place, performances in and around the historic Landguard Fort in Felixstowe, flying the flags of participating Olympic countries around the coast, locating the region on a giant scale with an ‘edible compass’ of four huge outdoor feasts, encouraging events in people’s own back gardens, and a participatory exhibition travelling around the East.
Robert is working with a stellar line-up of collaborators including the composer Michael Nymanand choreographer Wayne McGregor. Local people can get involved as participants and audiences, including brass bands, free runners, show offs, ghost hunters, crafts folk, wannabes, cooks, and kite flyers. Plus the entire project is being run as a training ground for young people, developing hands-on training in music, dance, filmmaking and event management skills.
The final film On Landguard Point will be premiered in the Spring of 2012.
See the shortlisted entries for this region and read about the judging panel
Pacitti Company is a London based ensemble of international theatre makers, live artists, visual artists, sound and film makers, researchers and technicians. Convened in 1991 by Artistic Director Robert Pacitti the Company has spent nearly two decades producing and touring an award winning body of radical new performance works worldwide. Pacitti Company produces the SPILL Festival Of Performance, London's premiere biennale of experimental theatre and live art.
Socially engaged and process led, Pacitti Company approaches performance making as investigation through research. Steadfast in its commitment to rigour and craft, the Company blends formal disciplines and techniques with social sciences and personal politic. This bespoke process enables Pacitti Company to serve audiences with works of vital artistic and cultural value, whilst always remaining accessible.