The piece is a Do-It-Together theatrical installation consisting of a large-scale building kit that is built over the course of a day by a group of 20 volunteers.
The international programme, presented by Cambridge Junction as part of its new Vision Mixers programme and produced by Other Ways, a new Cambridge-based collaboration between Artistic Director Daniel Pitt and Executive Director Sarah Crompton, aims to interrupt and surprise, allowing people to interact with the pieces.
The organisers say that the programme is challenging but accessible, intending to subvert expectations and to make an impact on a busy late-summer weekend.
The first project from the programme, community building installation KHOR II by TAAT, has just been announced with a request for volunteers from the various communities in Cambridge to help build it.
KHOR II is the central project for In Your Way and is the UK premiere of the piece by Dutch-Belgian collective TAAT (Theatre as Architecture, Architecture as Theatre).
T(Image removed)he piece is a Do-It-Together theatrical installation consisting of a large-scale building kit that is built over the course of a day by a group of 20 volunteers representing the wider population of the city.
With the building kit and the help of the KHOR II manual, the volunteers construct an ingenious wooden theatre pavilion in one day, which can subsequently be used for Do-it-together performances, cultural activities, and as a platform to redesign their community. In Your Way will be asking participants how they might want to change their city, and how the arts might help.
Artistic Director Daniel Pitt said: “The idea behind this construction art project is that it relates directly to how the people of Cambridge want to re-imagine and re-build their city; it encourages them to work together and consider the architecture of the city around them, particularly as the city grows.”
Executive Director Sarah Crompton added: “Our aim is to provide people with new experiences and get them thinking and perhaps interacting with other people they might not usually meet.”
Breg Horemans, co-director of TAAT said: “We're very excited to bring KHOR II to the UK for the first time in the project's history. In Your Way offers the perfect stage to encourage encounters in public space between the people living there and the institutions.”
In Your Way is suitable for all ages and takes place in open spaces across Cambridge city centre. It is free to view and non-ticketed. Active but non-compulsory audience interaction is key to the much of the programme, which is co-produced with Cambridge Junction.
The full programme of installations and locations is set to be announced in July.
Volunteers who wish to apply to join the KHOR II build volunteers can do so via the In Your way website: www.inyourway.org
For further announcement updates visit Twitter and Instagram: @InYourWayCambs
Image credit: KHORII-Amiens Jim Stephenson
About TAAT
TAAT (Theatre as Architecture Architecture as Theatre) are Dutch theatre maker Gert-Jan Stam and Belgian architect Breg Horemans, operating on the cutting-edge of theatre, architecture, the visual arts and design with projects such as KHOR II and HALL33.
TAAT investigates the tension between performance and the ‘narrative potential’ of space. TAAT projects show a strong social involvement and apply an open source process of transdisciplinary, DIT, experienced-based co-creation.
Gert-Jan Stam studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Amsterdam School of Writing (NL). His plays have received international recognition and were translated into different languages including Czech, Croatian, Arabic and Japanese.
Breg Horemans studied Architecture at St-Lucas Gent (B) and works as an architect at Wiel Arets Architects. He designed the Khor I pavillion and will continue doing the architectural research and design for other TAAT projects.
About Other Ways
Other Ways is a new Cambridge-based collaboration between Artistic Director Daniel Pitt and Executive Director Sarah Crompton.
Daniel Pitt is Artistic Director of Other Ways and Executive Producer at Chisenhale Dance Space (a home for experimentation in dance, based in East London). In 2017, he was Circus Producer at Roundhouse, co-curating April 2018’s international CircusFest, alongside freelance projects. He was Arts Producer at Cambridge Junction between 2012 and 2016.
Sarah Crompton is Executive Director of Other Ways and freelance theatre producer. Based in Cambridge, she works as Producer at award-winning international theatre company New International Encounter, Night Light Theatre (Cambridge), Flying Eye (Brighton), and All in (London).
About Cambridge Junction
Cambridge Junction is the performing arts centre where audiences and artists experience and explore contemporary performance, popular culture and creative learning and everything in-between.
Cambridge Junction has a varied programme which includes contemporary theatre and dance, family theatre, live music, comedy and clubs. It presents over 350 events each year across its three spaces to around 100,000 people as well as offsite projects.
Cambridge Junction’s presentation and creative learning programmes make valuable contributions to the community enabling young people and a wide variety of audiences to engage with the arts. Cambridge Junction also plays an important national role in talent development for artists and producers including supporting the development of new work.
Credits
Produced by Other Ways. A Cambridge Junction Vision Mixers co-production. Supported by Dutch Performing Arts, a programme of the Performing Arts Fund NL. Funded by Arts Council England.
About Cambridge Junction Vision Mixers
Vision Mixers is a new programme presented by Cambridge Junction as part of its commitment to the development of artists and contemporary performance. Through the initiative Cambridge Junction will support independent producers to deliver innovative and ambitious projects in Cambridge and across the region, connecting artists and audiences, both at its venue and in unusual locations. In Your Way is the first of three projects in 2018/19.