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.

“There is an elusive, eliding quality about the whole performance which skillfully collides nostalgic tourism, contemporary rural like and personal history. It is an atmospheric, touching and thought provoking piece, a quiet moment of reflection and intimacy.

The audience is left with fragments of lives and landscapes; past holidays and future fears. Blind Ditch have a light touch and something to say. A rare and valuable combination."

Barbara Bridger, Bloodaxe Writer of the Year, May 2003