The Zoo-oid Corporation

The Zoo-oid Corporation opens its doors to the public for a two day intensive performance laboratory.

Members of the Zoo-Oid Corporation will conduct their 2-day intensive performance laboratory on strategies that favour the transformative possibilities of collective dialogue. We will create a temporary space where interdisciplinary actions and imagination can thrive. Zoo-oid creates a zone in which radical impulses and progressive thought are allowed to take place . We give ourselves the permission to adopt various contradictory positions and identities. Here we blur all distinctions between 'us' and 'them', the 'self' and the 'other' and art and life. Our job will be to raise difficult questions that trigger a process of reflection and create images that haunt.

This cross-art, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural workshop is open to all artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, and students interested in the zoo-oid position.

The 10-hour days will offer two processes: participation in the Zoo-Oid performance methodology of MCT (mutuality, contact and trust) as a group training where we will introduce participants to a rigorous but exciting physical and vocal practice. Later we will conduct a more inquisitive approach where the group can raise their burning issues, complex desires and relevant questions that can be addressed by this work, with its fluid performance style, its pertinence to British culture and its political importance.

WARNING: If you are attached to any social, sexual, gender, racial or moral hang-ups in which people expressing themselves to the fullest of their passion and their disturbances may upset you then this workshop is not for you as all of your assumptions may be turned on their head.

Practical details: Dates: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th July Venue: Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BX (Nearest Station: Stratford - Jubilee, Central, DLR and mainline train services)