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Offline
Whatever you want it's out there: sordid stories, bad seed secrets, lost love and good clean fun. Categories for the organised voyeur. Come on in digital dandy. Snoop around you dirty little sneak. Browse through a store marked 'No Guilt No Shame'. Get caught in the act of what comes naturally. Uninvited Guests pull the plug and work offline. We've seen too much and can't take anymore. After shut down we're left in a room with only an index of where we have been, trying to recall our digital heaven. If you tell me yours I'll tell you mine... ... talk dirty to strangers that glow in the dark.
Offline is also available as a 6hr durational version. This intimate event is performed within a carpeted room built in a gallery context. Join the company offline, lounge with us on our carpet as we whisper others' textual confessions to you, close-up and breathy...
History
The show premiered at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt, Germany and Arnolfini in Bristol, UK. Offline toured in the UK and to Germany, Denmark and Slovienia. Offline was commissioned by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt as part of their Plateau Festival and Arnolfini Live as part of their 2001 season. The 6 hour durational version was performed at Arnolfini's Inbetween Time Festival, 16th February 2003.
Toured to: Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Junge Hunde festival, Kanonhallen, Copenhagen; Dance Theatre Llublijana, Slovenia, as part of Mladi Levi international festival; Arnolfini, Bristol; Leeds Metropolitan University Studio Theatre; Aberyswyth Arts Centre; Dartington Arts; 6hr durational version performed at Arnolfini’s Inbetween Time festival of live art, Bristol; Exeter Phoenix; Colchester Arts Centre; Camden People’s Theatre, London; Alsager Arts Centre, Crewe & Alsager; The Green Room, Manchester; Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University. The national tour was supported by Arts Council England’s National Touring Programme. Performances in Denmark and Slovenia were supported by the British Council and the European Commission.
Reviews
'Offline is an engaging and ambitious work, rigorous in terms of structure and execution...it's a pleasure to see this company continue to push itself in new directions.' (Stephen Hodge, Live Art Magazine)
'Accessible, provocative and most importantly intelligent, Uninvited Guests have created an essay in the limits of voyeurism'
(Vicky Frost, Bristol Evening Post)