Rules and Regs with ST Spot

Photo: Neil Baird

Ira Brand
Ira Brand is a writer and performance-maker, working across theatre and live art. Her practice is rooted in the experience of being human, rather than in singular narratives, and strives to make an audience re-consider themselves through work that is evocative and intimate. She was a founding member of contemporary performance group Tinned Fingers, and also works regularly in collaboration with other companies and artists, which have included People Show, Living Structures, Kings of England and Andy Field. She is currently developing her second solo performance, A Cure For Ageing, which will premiere in 2013.

FrenchMottershead
Rebecca French & Andrew Mottershead are visual and performance artists who make participatory, site-specific projects, which explore ideas of identity, social ritual and the everyday public and private realms in which these are played out. Their work has been said to achieve the popular ideal of raising people’s awareness of everyday life. Recent projects, exhibitions and performances have been commissioned by Tate Modern and The Photographers’ Gallery, the Liverpool Biennial, the National Review of Live Art, Site Gallery in Sheffield, Centro Cultural São Paulo and the Pingyao International Photography Festival. Site-specific locations have included European forests, shops and local newspapers in several international cities, the West Indian Ex-Serviceman’s Association, a public library, a Florida pool hall, and the pork supply chain in China.

Matthew Morris
Matthew is a freelance dance artist working internationally on productions that include stage, film, performance art, puppetry, education and site specific events. Some of the companies and choreographers he has had the pleasure of working with are DV8, Siobhan Davies Dance, Fevered Sleep, Fearghus O’conchuir, Tilted Productions, Didier Theron Co., Theatre-rites, Australian Dance Theatre, Clod Ensemble and Random Scream. In 2009 Matthew started to question a choreographic practice for himself and has since created 3 dance works for the stage and a short film. His work is based in live performance of telling stories through the language of movement and words.

Photo: Daisuke Sugita

Noriyuki Kiguchi
Born in 1975 in Kurashiki, Okayama. Started theatre activities when he was studying architecture and building science at the School of Engineering, Yokohama National University, and after graduating he started working at a construction site specializing in heavy lifting. He directed a theatrical production Akumanoshirushi in 2005 and other series of intermittent events until forming the group “Akumanoshirushi” in 2008. Since then, he has been producing performance pieces in various styles, including theatre works. In 2012, he was selected as a Junior Fellow by The Saison Foundation, toured in Switzerland and presented a new work Dead Tree, Illustrated.