Global Player Olympic Launch, Armada Square Plaza, Plymouth

Preview of Global Player at Torbay Space Invaders, Torquay.

Global Player at Jubilee Square, Brighton: 5th of August

Performance of Global Player in Exeter city and surrounding area: 10:00 until 18:00

Launch of Global Player at the Exeter Phoenix

Global Player, National Eisteddfod, Cardiff on the 6th of august.

Performance of Global Player

Exeter

Location and time TBC

Can you beat them? Ja! Si! Da! Oui! YES YES YES!

Photographed by Phillippa Thomas for Global Player

As a lead up to the Beijing Summer Olympics 2008, three uniformed table tennis players will pull a custom built table tennis table around the streets and public spaces of five British cities.

Strengthened for purpose and fitted with a towbar for ease of pulling, the table is a specially designed art object constructed by sculptor John Packer (www.johnpacker.com) out of recycled bicycle parts. On the table’s surface is an abstracted global map transforming both its journey through the city and each match played into a community performance event.

This is the launch tour of the Global Player project which is primed to reach all corners of the globe in the next 4 years. Visit www.blindditch.org/globalplayer for details of stats and video highlights. 

Eudaimonia (from the Aristotelian concept) is a self-contained system in which the technology appears part of an extended nervous system, both contradicting and supporting the human effort at its centre.

Cause and effect can no longer be identified as every action changes the environment and every change in the environment affects the actions within. More than being just a metaphor on humankind’s struggle within their material surroundings, Eudaimonia involves the audience into a breathtaking process of achievement and failure, driven by a sustained physical effort.

"it has the freshness of a question mark so fitting to the subject and of its treatment by this innovative multi media company."

Simon Persighetti, tEXt Festivals

An ongoing investigation into the defining moments that make us long to be more.

This work has so far been manifested in two parts. The initial performance of this work in studio theatre environment presented the audience with a kind of engine room of ideas as if the material of the performance was being excavated from an archive of ephemera. The performance space: part reference library, part kinetic sculpture, part techno science lab, became an ever-changing arena for an exposition on Heroism.