Kaleider announces five new live experiences in Exeter

This autumn, Exeter will host four new live performance experiences made, commissioned or produced by Kaleider. Taking place in public spaces throughout the city – from Exeter Central Library to the Guildhall – and all of them interruptive, and testing the boundaries of audience experience, the events offer something meaningful in everyday surroundings. 

Kaleider makes the effort to continually ask the question ‘what can we do together that we couldn’t do apart? to that end artists, academics and scientists have been brought together to imagine new works that begin to look towards a resilient and sustainable future. The first event, Where to build the walls that protect us, invites participants on a series of excursions, each focusing on a different subject: climate and terrain, buildings and the life between them, industry and commerce and mobility and communications. While walking throughout the city, a series of encounters will reveal different stories, provoke questions and offer new insights into the subject, prompting participants to re-imagine a different kind of Exeter.

Ariel, by Alice-Tatton Brown is part installation and part performance and takes place in Exeter Central Library. It tells an intimate story about a pioneering engineer and his wife, an avant garde dancer. The performance is conceived by Tatton-Brown after finding the engineer’s photographs of his wife ‘Ariel’ in an Exeter junk shop. She became fascinated with the couple, the patterns created by researching and documenting their lives, and the relationship between such patterns and our own futures.

Female parkourists run, jump and fly on a global platform in Kelly Marie Miller’s Running | Out of Time.  Participants are given a time code that guides them through a city landscape with a set of free-running instructions. Video recording their experience, they will upload the footage to an online global platform where it will be broadcast simultaneously with other participants performing the same task in different cities around the world. This project aims to choreograph female parkourists and freerunners, innovators and recreators in their place, connected by time and technology but spread across the globe in very different cities.

In Whispers, players experience a one-on-one short performance after which they receive a bronze tablet, cast with 10 rules. Players pass the performance and the tablet from person to person playing both audience then performer in a cooperative gifting chain. Kaleider is comissinioning established artists to create the initial first short performances which, with each tablet, will embark on a journey to an unknown destination. Whispers is a Kaleider production conceived by Kaleider’s Artistic Director Seth Honnor.

The Money is a Kaleider production conceived by Seth Honnor. To participate you either become a Benefactor donating as much as you can, or a Silent Witness watching as a group of Benefactors decide how to spend their collective money. If you don’t like the way the decision is going Silent Witnesses can buy their way in as Benefactors. Taking place in Exeter’s Guildhall where our council make their decisions, The Money playfully poses questions about value, priorities and collective decision making. There are two hours to decide unanimously on what to spend the money on and if you can’t agree you relinquish the right to spend it and the money rolls over to the next group of Benefactors.

Seth Honnor, Artistic Director of Kaleider said:
"It struck me the other day that it’s quite unusual to have a season of entirely new work with no tried and tested hits in the mix. But also really exciting. The artists we’re working with have excellent track records so it’s really special to be part of their artistic journey as they make something new. It’s an absolute pleasure to be inviting audiences to join us as we embark on this journey of experiment, intrigue, and adventure with brand new work being made here, in Exeter."

For more info, visit www.kaleider.com