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Image: Amato Saltone / Photographer: Christopher Simms

Image: Photographer: Christopher Simms

SHUNT

Aerial performance, Installation-based performance, Performative events, Site-generic

SIZE OF COMPANY
Varies

SCALE OF VENUE
Small- to middle-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Shunt Artists
Serena Bobowski
Gemma Brockis
Lizzie Clachan
Louise Mari
Hannah Ringham
Andrew Roland
Layla Rosa
David Rosenberg
Mischa Twitchin
Heather Uprichard

General Manager
Luke Cooper

ARTISTIC POLICY
Shunt is a collective of artists who have been working together for 10 years on site-specific shows that aim to question the rigid boundaries between audience and performance. The collective’s home is a vast labyrinth of railway arches under London Bridge station. Its current project, The Shunt Lounge, is an amazing bar where Shunt Artists work as individuals creating and showing their work and also curate work from the wider artistic community. The work of the artists from the collective represents their diverse interests and skills, including aerial work, performance and installations. Their individual shows will be available to tour throughout 2008.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Time Out ()

Independent on Sunday ()

Daily Telegraph

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS

Created and performed by Shunt Artist Gemma Brockis and Silvia Mercuriali, is a travelling site-specific show for an audience of three that takes place in a car driving through the city. The view of the world outside is transformed by the story and sounds within the car.

By Layla Rosa. Aerial movement, moving image and physical feats collide with audio, video and vocals to create a unique theatrical performance, illusion and installation.

By Louise Mari. Mudman is a series of calculated, visually arresting attacks on one unassuming naked man. Performances are unannounced and suitable for a variety of venues.

Prawns, psychotherapy and giant props... a journey into a confused individual. Andrew Roland, Shunt sound designer, performer and fake food enthusiast, walks the audience through his life, trying to understand how he got to where he is now.

By Serena Bobowski in collaboration with Hank Bloomer. A collection of interactive performances and installations exploring the theme of awkwardness. Designed for a bar or club setting.

By Mischa Twitchin. is a non-verbal installation performance giving visual and aural echo to Wladislaw Szpilman’s memoir. It has no technical requirements beyond a CD player and PA, and a complete blackout.

By Mischa Twitchin. Performance with projected images, pre-recorded sound montage, and live speech. Technically it requires a projector and wall (or screen), and CD player and PA.

By Hannah Ringham. A poem without rhyme or metre – or any of those qualities normally associated with a poem… there is music, however, in the form of a live DJ set by a musician.

By Heather Uprichard A darkly humorous piece of new writing performed within a lounge bar setting. The piece explores the impact the human ego has upon our construction and consumption of the news.

By Heather Uprichard. The characters of this funny and compelling play tread the boards and a few of life’s larger philosophical questions with an approach that is as disparate as their costumes.

FUTURE PRODUCTION
By David Rosenberg. The piece is communicated through sets of radio headphones worn by the audience.

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request

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