Queering, Archives & Performance

Events

Lunchtime Talk

Fri 3 Jul 2020 13:00-14:00 at YouTube Live

For this talk Studio Resident & Performer Tom Marshman & Jeanie Sinclair, Historian touch on research methods, embodiment of characters, ethics & how creative tech lead to the making of the theatre show A Haunted Existence.

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Speaker

Tom Marshman

Tom’s practice honours the art of conversation and creates spaces that enable people to share their stories.

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Every Friday we offer free, informal lunchtime talks from people sharing projects, process, ideas and provocations around pervasive media and creative technology. If you or someone you know should be a part of our programme, contact Martin O'Leary.

This Lunchtime Talk will be broadcast live on Watershed's YouTube channel

Tom has been a practicing artist for 21 years, and produced over 60 projects, across many mediums, including - museum audio-tours, theatre & cabaret. Actively encouraging dialogue with participants, through socially engaged processes such as ‘Tea Parties’, allowing evocative glimpses into everyday life, letting me tell engaging, poetic & unpretentious stories. An overarching theme of Tom’s work is that of the outsider & their story, particularly regarding the LGBTQ+ experience, stories that been omitted through archival silence.

Jeanie Sinclair is a historian, researcher and curator interested in turning archive silences into archive noise. She uses archives to explore hidden and alternative histories, and how history and memory can be performed as a way of subverting archival power structures to disrupt existing historical narratives.

Tom and Jeanie will discuss their approach and how they worked together during the R&D for the theatre show - A Haunted Existence - and the unexpected places the research took them too. Tom will also touch on the work he has been doing during Lockdown.

Join us on Fri 3rd July, 13:00-14:00 for the talk and to take part in the discussion afterwards.

Watch live on YouTube

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Past Events

If you are interested in previous events at the Studio, take a look at our events archive.

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Upcoming Events

Lunchtime Talk: Ethnographic Animation

Open Studio Friday

Producer Wednesdays

First Friday May

Make Shift Meetup

Past Events