FrenchMottershead
Club Class

© FrenchMottershead 2006
Saturday 11 November 2006, 13.00–17.00

Club Class is a performance experience created by FrenchMottershead (Rebecca French and Andrew Mottershead) that invites participants to explore the social rituals and museum etiquette of Tate Liverpool.

Participants choose from four micro-classes led by experts, which explore the possibilities of what might happen when behavioural attitudes are altered. Using bad behaviour, clothing, surveillance or body language to reassess the customs of a museum visit, the experience offers the opportunity to devise performances to be played out in various locations in Tate Liverpool.

Places are limited. To book, email jean.tormey@tate.org.uk specifying which micro-class from the Curriculum you'd like to attend.

Supported by Arts Council England

Tate Liverpool 
£10 (£8 concessions), booking required
£6 Tate Members.
For tickets, call 0151 702 7400.


Access for wheelchairs and pushchairs  

Club Class Curriculum

Micro-class 1: Bad Behaviour with Tom Bruno-Magdich
Tom Bruno-Magdich

Earn your TASBO (Tate Anti-Social Behaviour Order)! Trained in 'controlled delinquency', you'll be motivated to step outside of your customary social self and perform wicked misdeeds that disrupt and subvert expectations of a museum visit.

Tom Bruno-Magdich combines his in-depth, academic study of analytical psychology, hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming with over 20 years of working in the entertainment industry, appearing both on the West End stage and on television. Through his work at Impact Factory, Tom hosts training courses on personal impact, leadership, motivational thinking, creativity, communication and presentation skills.

Micro-class 2: Clothing with Marsha Roddy
Marsha Roddy

Are your clothes communicating your self image? Witty ... considered ... glamorous ... spontaneous? What personal imprint do you leave on your clothes? Through discussion, removal and display of your clothes and accessories, Marsha will lead you to explore the meanings of what you and other museum visitors wear, and invite you to fashion and try out a new identity.

Marsha Roddy is a costume and production designer responsible for envisioning and realising dramatic works during a 20 year career that has taken her to Europe, America and Asia. A personal passion has been to draw on ideas of tribe and uniform when interpreting and creating character identities through clothing alone. Marsha has worked on numerous feature films, operas, theatre and dance productions. She also works widely on television programmes and commercials for the BBC, satellite and cable channels.

Micro-class 3: Surveillance with Jason Hunter
Jason Hunter

This is people-watching under pressure as you experience the world of covert, on-foot surveillance. Unnatural behaviour will betray your ulterior motives so you'll be trained to 'go grey' and blend into the crowd. Building up an intelligence picture of your target and watching for brush contacts, without blowing your cover, is the challenge of this micro-class.

Jason Hunter has been working in Intelligence for 19 years. Alongside continuing operational work in the commercial and private sectors for clients such as Coco-Cola and Microsoft, Jason teaches Special Forces units in Europe, North America and beyond. Jason also works with ISS Training, the UK's foremost surveillance training company.

Micro-class 4: Body Language with Athina Vahla
Athina Vahla

An up-close examination of the nuances of your movement through the museum. Athina will prompt awareness of what your gestures, touches and pacing through the galleries communicate. Subverting your habitual body language, you'll create alternative ways to relate to the museum visitors, exhibits and spaces.

Athina Vahla is an award-winning choreographer who has produced critically acclaimed work across London and Europe. A teacher at the LABAN Centre and London Contemporary Dance School, Athina has her own dance company and is a member of 'Shinkansen'.

 


See also:
  FrenchMottershead: Club Class   Saturday 7 October 2006
This event is related to the Liverpool Biennial: International 06 exhibition