First Friday
First Friday is a monthly social and showcasing event open to anyone. This month we’re transforming the Studio into a Goblin Market, an alternative marketplace that explores new ways of making, exchanging and valuing creative work.
Drawing on LARP (Live Action Role-Playing), theatre and speculative economies, Goblin Market asks what happens when we play an economy rather than simply describe one. What do we value when money is replaced by story, gesture, attention, trust, and exchange? Part performance, part game, and part ritual, this First Friday will invite you to enter an informal and welcoming temporary world, where the rules of trade are remade together.
Showcasing work from the following artists:
- Amelia Winger-Bearskin, (she/her/hers, Seneca-Cayuga Nation) is a Brooklyn-based artist who invites you to the Goblin Market, a playful, participatory performance co-created as part of her Royal Shakespeare Company IF Fellowship at Watershed. The event transforms the space into a strange and generous market where audiences use stones as currency, barter for wrapped edible offerings, and take part in a living game of value, exchange, and care.
- Tunde Olaniran (they/them ) is an artist based in Flint, MI, whose work spans the worlds of music, dance, film, literature and performance art. They have collaborated with Amelia on development of a costume that acts as a ledger, which Tunde will share as part of the Goblin Market.
About the IF Fellowship
The Interdisciplinary Fellows are part of the Interdisciplinary Feasibility Programme launched by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, funded by UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The Fellowships form part of AHRC’s PORTIA (participatory and open research through technology in action) programme which seeks to create the spaces, places and platforms that enable creativity-led R&D to thrive.
About Pervasive Media Studio
Pervasive Media Studio hosts an international community of over 200 artists, companies, technologists, and academics exploring experience design and creative technology. We are a space for risk taking and early ideas; for the kind of projects and questions that inhabit the meeting points of art, technology and society.
Our projects span play, robotics, location-based media, food, connected objects, interactive documentary, new forms of performance and more.
We have an open plan studio with a culture of generosity, curiosity, and interruptibility. We believe that by clustering people together from a broad range of backgrounds, with differing skills, experience, and opinions, all of our ideas become better.
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This event is supported by MyWorld.