MY-DENTITY

An ongoing RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

 
Participants of workshops by Clarissa Debenham Photography for ‘My-dentity’ Phase 1 at Metal Culture.

Participants of workshops by Clarissa Debenham Photography for ‘My-dentity’ Phase 1 at Metal Culture.

 

PHASE 2

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In Autumn 2019 Blown Fuse propose to embark on Phase 2 of My-Dentity to develop the material gained from their research to create an immersive performance installation. The company aim to create an interactive installation experience for one audience member at a time comprising live performance, VR and innovative sound design.

In March 2020, My-Dentity Phase 2 will focus on creative development of the piece. They will be collaborating with other local artists, writers, directors and actors. The aim is to create an immersive one-to-one performance piece which will include live performance, binaural audio and art installation. Blown Fuse will also work on developing narrative, dramaturgy and character development.

 

PHASE 1

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My-Dentity has been supported and funded by the Arts Council England.

My-Dentity has been supported and funded by the Arts Council England.

My-dentity is a three-week research and development project exploring the concept of womxnhood in the 21st Century, engaging with womxn with diverse experience and backgrounds from Southend. Taking place during our Time & Space residency at Metal Culture, it's an investigation into other womxn’s experiences and how they compare to our own. It is important that our work comes from a place of truth and honesty, so aim to obtain real stories to use as stimulus to ultimately devise an experiential, immersive piece of theatre. We are running creative workshops with women identified through local community groups which will focus on food, nutrition, wellness, beauty, femininity and body image. We are particularly interested in engaging womxn who may not have had such direct access to the arts in the past.

The work created as a result of this investigation will then form the basis of full-scale theatre project later in the year. We anticipate that the final material will be taken on to develop into a tour-ready theatre piece that can be experienced by audiences in non-traditional venues, outside of building based arts organisations.

These are some of the workshops we ran during our Research and Development with our community of womxn in Essex. The outcome of these workshops was invaluable and we heard some truly amazing stories and opinions from those who took part.

We also worked with some incredible artists and practitioners during this time: