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schlock
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Trailer (5 MB)
Schlock is Uninvited Guests’ fourth touring theatre project.
The premiere took place at Ferens Gallery, Hull in March this
year. Schlock will tour the UK this October and early next spring.
Please see the news page for details.
Schlock collides the real with the really fake. Personal experiences
of bodily trauma and fears about what's going on inside - injuries,
accidents and illnesses - encounter the erotics of TV hospital
dramas and horror-flicks.
The performers speak directly to the audience through a clear
Perspex screen. It's as if they possess a kind of second-sight
as they retell others' accidents and injuries as though they
happened, or will happen, to them… or to you. A sense of anticipation
builds - that something horrible might occur here, or already
has - as plundered fragments of horror soundtracks are heard
off, from in the wings.
With digital artist Duncan Speakman (www.kleindesign.co.uk),
we're exploring the performers as acoustic instruments, using
contact mics to live-sample noises from their bodies and soundtrack
the show. Custom-built software enables us to process each others'
voices with pressure sensors, to increase our sampled heart-beats
to impossible rates and trigger plundered samples through body
contact.
In consultancy with a TV make-up artist we're recreating wounds
across each other's bodies. We show care for one another through
the tender making-up of bloody cuts; that signify some past
violent event. In Schlock, tenderness becomes cruel and the
appearance of cruelty slides seamlessly into intimacy.
Schlock asks whether we can sit at the bedside of a loved-one,
or hear the beeps of a heart monitor without thinking of endless
scenes from TV and film? What is it in horror that holds us,
makes us want to look at accidents as we drive-by? Uninvited
Guests explore our desire to look and to look away.
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