Photo: Jemima Yong
Control Signal started with an attempt to look at what you can’t actually see.
Drawn by ideas of invisible connections between bodies, and bodies and a specific place, we investigate the body as conduit for the passage of electricity. We are researching our need to control our immediate surroundings; each other, nature.
Through an intricate journey that sometimes is a struggle, sometimes a chore and sometimes a surrender to a path we have set out for ourselves, we try and understand how our bodies can serve several functions. We test. We fail. We get up. We ask. We pull to lift, and push to move. We look at each other for an affirmation to continue, we translate movements into words as we go, we tell a truth. We allow for a controlled mess to happen.
How do we proceed in the safest possible way?
How does it help us if we know what the worst possible ending could be? How do we make sense of getting lost?
CONTROL SIGNAL past performances
2nd November 2013 at Broad Center Performance Space, Claremont, California
Premiered the 10th and 11th October 2013 at Chelsea Theatre, London
Preview at Wickham Theatre, Bristol, University, 3rd of October 2013
Work-in-progress 16th June 2012, Rich Mix as part of Present Attempt'sSHOWTiME # 3 Control Signal
Documentation
The following documents were created during the performance at SHOWTiME by Open Dialogues, Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham as part of NOTA c.
NOTA 1 NOTA 2 NOTA 3 NOTA 4 NOTA 5 NOTA 6 NOTA 7 NOTA 8 NOTA 9 NOTA 10
NOTA 11
Click here to read writer and producer Mary Paterson's response to Control Signal
Click here to read an edited version of a post-show conversation between writer Joe Kelleher, Karen Christopher and Sophie Grodin after the performance of Control Signal 10th October 2013.
Click here to see excerpt of video documentation by Susanne Dietz.
Visit Karen Christopher's site to find out more about the show and its future
2nd November 2013 at Broad Center Performance Space, Claremont, California
Premiered the 10th and 11th October 2013 at Chelsea Theatre, London
Preview at Wickham Theatre, Bristol, University, 3rd of October 2013
Work-in-progress 16th June 2012, Rich Mix as part of Present Attempt'sSHOWTiME # 3 Control Signal
Documentation
The following documents were created during the performance at SHOWTiME by Open Dialogues, Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham as part of NOTA c.
NOTA 1 NOTA 2 NOTA 3 NOTA 4 NOTA 5 NOTA 6 NOTA 7 NOTA 8 NOTA 9 NOTA 10
NOTA 11
Click here to read writer and producer Mary Paterson's response to Control Signal
Click here to read an edited version of a post-show conversation between writer Joe Kelleher, Karen Christopher and Sophie Grodin after the performance of Control Signal 10th October 2013.
Click here to see excerpt of video documentation by Susanne Dietz.
Visit Karen Christopher's site to find out more about the show and its future
Photos: Alex Eisenberg
Photos: Jemima Yong