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12am: Awake and Looking Down


First performed in 1993, 12am occupies a territory beyond 'theatre performance'. Looking at identity as a shifting, contradictory site, over seven hours five silent performers endlessly reinvent their identities using cardboard signs to name themselves and a vast store of jumble sale clothing.

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Quizoola!

Quizoola! is a live negotiation of what is real and what is performed and the need for knowledge, certainty and definition through language. In a

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Quizoola!  Photo © Manuel Vason, 2003
marathon game three performers interrogate each other with a text of 2000 questions ranging from pop trivia to personal secrets and twisted philosophical searches.

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Video Work

A programme of video works by Forced Entertainment's artistic director Tim Etchells and longtime collaborator photographer, Hugo Glendinning. Videos include Starfucker, Down Time and Kent Beeson is a Classic & an Absolutely New Thing.

Over the last 18 years, Sheffield based Forced Entertainment have created work that smashes all conventions. Innovative in form and subversive in content, recent projects include CD-Roms, video installations and theatre performances including Void Spaces (Site Gallery 2000), Who Can Sing A Song To Unfrighten Me (LIFT 1999) and Filthy Words and Phrases (NOW Festival 1998).

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Forced Entertainment Quizoola! durational work, 1996
Forced Entertainment Quizoola! durational work, 1996
Commissioned by ICA Live Arts and National Review of Live Art 1996
Photo © Hugo Glendinning, 2002

12am: Awake and Looking Down
Forced Entertainment 12am: Awake and Looking Down   Photo © Manuel Vason, 2002

 
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