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

Eudaimonia (from the Aristotelian concept) is a sculpture-installation for two performers using the idea of the daimonic to play on the idealisation and deconstruction of the human body. The live body is surrounded by a set of cameras connected to monitors, magnifying, fragmenting and re-framing it. Electroacoustic feedback emanates between camera mics and TVs. It is altered by the movements of the performer in the centre, who in turn responds to the electroacoustic environment. Feedback is perpetual as well as static in the way a sculpture or a painting would be. Moments of ephemeral beauty give way to drastic and sometimes pornographic images, failure follows achievement and embrace follows collision between the soft machine of the body and the dependant hardware. Working between choreographic score, projected text and tone recognition software the performance of Eudaimonia is a self-contained system in which digital technology appears part of an extended nervous system, both contradicting and supporting the human effort at its centre. 

"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.

'It was the best media thing I've done in ages...'  Jeremy, 16

VANLAND  mobile media project  explores issues of place and identity through the making and exhibiting of creative digital video. Initially conceived as a three year programme for young people in rural Teignbridge, VANLAND  now works with a range of communities, arts organizations and media professionals across South West England. Celebrated as best practice by the EU LEADER + programme, VANLAND films have won awards at regional film festivals and the caravan was shortlisted for the exhibition cateogory PMP Media Innovation Awards 2007. VANLAND  events and workshops are generated by Blind Ditch in partnership with local communities and are also available for commission. Visit the VANLAND site for full details.