Temporary Autonomous Zones

Devised by the company

2017

The Ron Cooke Hub, York

Director: Chloe Christian

Composer: Jack McNeil

DJs

Tim Wright, Bearfoot, Liam Maloney, Oren, Quip

PERFORMERS

Anna Poulton, Arian Sarrafan, Fizz Margereson, James Mcllwrath, Penelope Zouganeli

An immersive performance installation.

Temporary Autonomous Zones is part club night, part theatre performance, and entirely experimental. An immersive installation created by performers, DJs and fixed media, its ultimate aim is to reframe cultural and social factors in electronic dance music through the media of dance, theatre, immersion and the application of critical theory.

An ensemble of DJ’s and performers respond to the provocations of three core themes found in club culture; ‘Queer’, ‘Excess’ and ‘Hierarchy’. With a soundtrack scratched live by the DJs, and performers ‘scratched’ live by the director, an immersive narrative is built through interactions with their environment and audience. Throughout the duration of the piece a transient, social and cultural microclimate is built, a Temporary Autonomous Zone, outside of which the work doesn’t exist.