The University of Glasgow’s Immersive Experiences Lab is hosting two free events this Friday in partnership with Take Me Somewhere festival.
WORKSHOP: asses.masses: Workshop on Democracy, Immersive Practices and Performance
09:30 am–12:00 pm @ Concert Hall at the University of Glasgow
Do our practices and systems within the performing arts sector support or hinder a strong democracy? Led by two of the artists behind asses.masses, Patrick Blenkarn and David Mesiha, participants in this workshop will collaborate to answer this question and to playfully imagine new experiences, stories, games, and processes that might foster new forms of democratic practices within the performing arts and our society at large.
PANEL: Politics of/in Immersive Performance Experiences
3:30pm – 5.00pm @ Concert Hall at the University of Glasgow
Immersive performance invites us to step inside the story—sometimes as guests, sometimes as co-creators. But what happens when we think about the politics of these experiences? How might immersion itself be mobilised as a tool for critique, resistance, or complicity? Bringing together artists Tania El Khoury (Cultural Exchange Rate), Patrick Blenkarn (asses.masses), and Jack Lander, this panel will explore the possibilities and limits of immersive performance as a political form, consider the shifting role of audience engagement within it, and reimagine what it means to be part of a performance.