Performance/Installation/Film Offsite

A building with scarred facade sits in bright sunlight © FM Bachmann

Sat, 28.10.2023

10:30 AM BST

Goethe-Institut Glasgow

Can you feel the presence of past histories at old sites?

Immerse yourself in this film performance installation about speaking with spirits

Do physical sites carry traces of those who once lived there? An abandoned building with windows boarded up and a lawn grown wild offers a deep dive into forgotten histories of ordinary lives, relationships begun, broken off and revived.

A masked figure stands motionless in the corner, without speaking. Their eyes are hidden but you can't shake off the feeling that they are following you as you walk through this intimate space. The walls are adorned with symbols and fragments of paper and materials. The masquerades of Carnival are evoked, along with their power to disrupt social norms and hierarchies.

This film, with accompanying performance and installation, operates hauntingly at the intersection between here and there, now and then, lost and found. 

Offsite (Ultimately There is Space Between Us)

Created by: Jessica Paris and Dale Williamson
Choreographed by: Jessica Paris
Edited by: Dale Williamson 
Sound design: Dale Williamson
Performed by: Jessica Paris, Dale Williamson, Misha McLean and Iris 

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