Reader Performance Group

Reader Performance Group

Reader was a Glasgow-based collaboration held between Hannah Chiswell (2001-02), Lalage Harries, James Leadbitter, Eilidh MacAskill and Robert Walton. During the four years that Reader existed the group produced 16 distinct performance works in a variety of sites and countries and with a host of guest collaborators.

Click here to visit Reader’s website.

The Act of Reading (and the Fire Next Time)

By Stephen J. Bottoms, 2004

This piece introduces Reader with reference to a range of works.  An insightful article from the publication that accompanied the Strangers and Intimacy project where Reader wrote letters to, and eventually visited artists living in Melbourne.

View in HTML | .pdf Format

Reader Works

Can’t you hear me?  It’s dark in here.  Where have you gone anyway? : weathering the storms of human relations : a symposium
April 2005, commissioned for Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art, London
7 performers

 

Strangers and Intimacy
International research and performance project
7 performers
Part 1: International Writing Project, September – December 2004
Part 2: Performance Installation, 27th Jan – 5th Feb 2005, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
Part 3: Studio Performance, 9th, 10th March in CCA, Glasgow

HUGGER-MUGGER
8th, 9th, 10th December 2004, Chandler Studio, RSAMD, Glasgow
7 performers

Songs from the Burning Bed : Song Minus One – Cock of the Walk
26th, 27th, 28th November 2004, CCA, Glasgow
5 performers

Songs from the Burning Bed : Selected Songs
27th August 2004, CCA, Glasgow
4 performers

Songs from the Burning Bed : Song One – FIREMASTER
28th May, SiLENCiO, Edinburgh and 29th May 2004, Market Gallery, Glasgow
3 performers

Warm Welcome Cold Climate
19th November 2003, CCA, Glasgow
4 performers

Base Camp II
19th October 2003, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
3 performers

Dumb Bunny
9-11th October 2003, Tramway, Glasgow. A Tramway Dark Lights Commission
4 performers

Base Camp 
22nd August 2003, EmergeD @ Brunswick Youth Hostel, Edinburgh
2 performers

A meeting to decide the nature of a new planet and it’s contents
8th July 2003, Mono Cafe (4 performers)

Special Relationship
20th November 2002, for EmergeD @ SYHA Youth Hostel, Glasgow
5 performers

your hand on my skin and the Earth’s still turning
October – November 2002, Brunel University, Dartington Arts, The Arches Live! Season
5 performers

Mr Pig says ‘Outwith the old’
25th June 2002, Tramway, Glasgow
5 performers

So Long
First performed June 2001, Dartington College of Arts, Devon then toured
4 performers

Role

Co-Founder, Co-Artisitc Director, Performer, Deviser/Writer

Date

2001 – 2005

Category

Company