Ocean Confessions Credit: Brian Hartley
Lunchtime Talk

Breaking theatre is more fun than making theatre

Fri 21 Aug 2020 13:00-14:00

In this talk, studio resident and theatre director Tanuja Amarasuriya discusses her approach of making theatre by not doing it “properly” and the idea that how we tell our stories is as important as which stories we tell.

c/o of 3-Fold Games
Lunchtime Talk

Can games be serious?

Fri 14 Aug 2020 13:00-14:00

Studio resident Claire Morwood & Chella Ramanan of 3-Fold Games will be introducing their recently released video game, Before I Forget - a short narrative exploration about a woman suffering from early-onset dementia.

c/o Javaad Alipoor
Lunchtime Talk

Democracy, Theatre and Race

Fri 31 Jul 2020 13:00-14:00

In this lunchtime talk artist, writer & Studio Resident Javaad Alipoor asks how theatre and digital art might just be able to contribute to the big political questions of the 21st Century?

Billennium, STRP Festival at Dutch Design Week 2019, photo Boudewijn Bollmann, with live illustrations by Sam Steer.
Lunchtime Talk

Dreaming Future Places

Fri 10 Jul 2020 13:00-14:00

Jess & Paul from Uninvited Guests will introduce their AR projects Billennium & Future Places Toolkit & discuss whether creative tech and sci-fi storytelling can inspire people to imagine better futures for their places.

Tom Marshman by Paul Samual White
Lunchtime Talk

Queering, Archives & Performance

Fri 3 Jul 2020 13:00-14:00

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.

Credit Timothy J Senior
Lunchtime Talk

Wicked Problems / Clumsy Solutions

Fri 26 Jun 2020 13:00-14:00

We live in a complex world, but only some problems are Wicked Problems. Hard to define and with no clear solution, they challenge the very institutions we turn to in a crisis. supersum takes a different approach.

c/o Martin O'Leary
Event

Lunchtime Talks Now Online

Fri 26 Jun 2020 13:00-14:00

While Watershed and the Pervasive Media Studio are temporarily closed, we’ve opened the digital doors of the Studio & lunchtime talks are happening every Friday at 1pm on YouTube. You can also watch previous talks.

c/o Owain Astles
Lunchtime Talk

Homeless Lockdown Diaries

Fri 19 Jun 2020 13:00-14:00

New Resident Owain Astles joins us for this lunchtime talk and asks how can Participatory Video be used for empowerment and activism, and how do we respond to working in an increasingly virtual space?

c/o David Lisser
Lunchtime Talk

Carnecopia; hope, greed and cultured meat

Fri 12 Jun 2020 13:00-14:00

David Lisser is an artist whose recent works imagine the future of cultured meat and the role of technology in food. Here he will discuss the potential, the problems, and the utter weirdness of this fledgling industry.