Update
Launching 10-Year Anniversary Celebration – Artist Carol Sorhaindo
Visual Artist Carol Sorhaindo launches the 10-year celebration of Transportation Transformation: Migration, Teleportation, and Railways (TT:MTR)! On April 11, 2023, Sorhaindo will discuss the set design for TT:MTR, her relationship with physics, and her ideas around the role of new…
Celebrating 10 years
Ten years ago performing artists Joe Williams and David Hamilton and visual artist Carol Sorhaindo along with physicists Axel Kuhn (University of Oxford) and Almut Beige (University of Leeds) agreed to join me in the research and creation of Transportation…
Reflections on Migration and Teleportation
On a recent journey between two European countries a list of unanticipated encounters with border agents made me start reflecting on the rehearsal process for this project. I recall specific moments in which the performers and I were working to…
Closer and Closer to Quantum Teleportation
There has been so much quantum teleportation in the news recently it was hard to choose which to include in this post. The scheme presented the New York Times June 2, 2014 is presented below. The basics of teleportation knowledge will inevitably…
AHRC Cultural Engagement Showcase – University of Liverpool
30 January 2014 Carol Sorhaindo and I were awarded travel bursaries to present the project at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Engagement Showcase hosted by University of Liverpool. This took place on Thursday, 30 January 2014. As…
Rex Nettleford Arts Conference
In October 2013 the project will present at the Rex Nettleford Arts Conference (http://www.emcartsconference.org/) in Kingston, Jamaica. Scene from the Rex Nettleford Arts Conference at Edna Manley College in 2012
IFRT/FIRT Conference
The first paper on the project, titled Performing Transportation Transformation: Migration, Teleportation, and Railways, was presented at the 2013 FIRT/IFTR International Federation for Theatre Research (http://www.firt2013barcelona.org/) which took place in Barcelona, Spain 22nd – 26th July. This year’s conference theme…
18 June 2013
Since the last post of 30 April 2013, the Project began its second phase with the 23rd May 2013 community engagement and video sharing. Dr Almut Beige and Chapeltown community member in discussion during video showing snack break. Below, Dr…
11th and 12th Weeks Closing Out the 1st Phase
I have spent the past couple of weeks closing out the first phase of the project. Quite literally this has meant acknowledging the extraordinary contributions of those who agreed to be a part of the project, reviewing the amazing successes,…
9th and 10th Weeks
The 9th week was the week of the Open Rehearsal at Workshop Theatre at the University of Leeds. It was also the week leading up to the performance at Seven Arts. The performance script was not yet finalized, but the…