A stirring sense of provocation in the Webber Douglas Studio as Hannah and Gemma continue to show the work made by students in response to their opening workshop. I know they've been insisting on questions - the question which each detail of each work puts in the mind of the audience. On entering the studio for one work we even find a huge question mark on the floor. Closer examination of the question mark reveals it's made up of many cards, each card bearing the name of a member of the audience. Instinctively, as members if the audience, we look for our own name, and shuffle towards it. Soon the whole audience is standing in the shape of a question mark, wondering what will happen next. For the last part of their workshop, Hannah and Gemma examine in detail a part of one of the first works to be shown on the previous day - in which the performer pulls on huge surgical gloves, and approaches a carefully selected member of the audience. During the afternoon, I am struck by how the spirit of Shunt has entered the Webber Douglas Studio - a little anarchic - with big bold brush-strokes filling the space of the Studio, challenging our notion of what a performance in such a space might be. One of the participants writes to Hannah and Gemma (hope you don't mind my quoting you - I forwarded the email ) 'Just wanted to thank you for your leading us through a wonderful workshop this past week. Everyone in the group is still buzzing about the work and the ideas.'
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