Accidental Collective

We are a group of three artists, each with a different area of expertise. Our practice is based on non-hierarchical collaboration. As a collective, we are also open to working with other artists, performers and non-performers. Methodologically, our work is heavily process-lead. The product is important, but the process by which it is created is oft... en an integral and visible part of the finished piece. Our work hybridises art forms and straddles experimental theatre and live art. Whether producing performances, events or public interventions, we play with familiar frameworks (a beauty parlour, a shop window, playing hide and seek, a candlelit vigil, etc) in order to subvert expectations. In doing so we seek to provoke the audience to question assumed boundaries: within society, between art and life, or fiction and reality. Our projects aim to make certain binaries permeable: performance/the everyday, performer/audience, failure/success, creation/destruction, beginning/end. As a result, they often exist outside the limits of art and spill into people's everyday existence. The role of the audience is an important focus of our practice. Aiming give people 'space' - both literal and conceptual - we make work that unpicks something ostensibly simple and invites audiences to pull the loose thread. Audiences have been made voyeurs, complicit performers, protagonists, and co-creators in order that they may acknowledge the shared responsibility in creative action, and make a personal investment in the work. We continually push ourselves as creators and performers - which is more clearly expressed in the inclination towards endurance in the work we produce. We seek to 'test' ourselves in some way with each piece; to a certain extent, we also seek to test our audience. We occasionally create something which is entirely unrehearsable. Often, this means embracing the unknown - something with which we are very comfortable. We are drawn to the unexpected. At the same time we always work at a high standard. This doesn't just ...Read More