Blind Ditch is an artist collective practising across the fields of devised theatre, video, visual art and new media. Since our first studio piece in 2000, we have been working with the simultaneity of live and mediated presence to open up a fertile imaginative space for audience members. We make acts of performance – installation – intervention – participation; dynamic moments of negotiation that shift between visions of local and global landscapes. We are experimenting with mixed media to find a more porous performance space – making explicit the world beyond the walls of the black box / white cube to make work that is both inspired by and rooted in the politics of our daily lives.

Blind Ditch was formed during post-graduate research at Dartington College of Arts. We are a project funded group who collaborate in different constellations according to our skills and passion for the work we instigate. Amongst other things we were graduate company in residence at the college between 2002-04 and recipients of an Arts Council Reflective Practitioner bursary in 2003 during which time our core group adjusted to include artists trained in other places ... from other worlds. Alongside our performance/fine arts practice we now also run a participatory media project in rural Devon called VANLAND.

Bios:

Paula Crutchlow
Dr John Levack Drever
Dan Harris
Henning Hegland
Volkhardt Müller
Cat Radford