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Photographs by Kippa Mathews, Carolyn Mendelsohn, Tim Mitchell, Tim Smith and Tim Wheeler
© 2017 Tim Wheeler Arts | Website designed by – Projeto
Photographs by Kippa Mathews, Carolyn Mendelsohn, Tim Mitchell, Tim Smith and Tim Wheeler
My performance work explores the aesthetics of difference. I’m interested in working with artists and producers who have radically different sensibilities, in how they think about, and experience the world, and in what they do. I regard audience members as equal partners in the making of meaning.
I’m drawn to the beautiful voices of the unheard, the vision of the unseen. I aim to make difference work. Here, you’ll find some examples of my work. If you’re an artist, producer, venue, or company interested in partnership and collaboration, or just simply fancy working with me then do get in touch.
#rvBD on 7th November, is a mass participation performance game that commemorates the everyday revolutionary spirit in us all. Echoing events in 1917: Saint Petersburg, and 1967: Bradford, players get to capture the flag (Mirror Pool), storm the Winter Palace (City Hall), create new laws (Council Chamber), and finally… eat cake!
Imagine an 18 tonne, 6’ cube of Yorkshire stone appears in the middle of the street one morning. The only clue, the word immovable inscribed on one side. In the days that follow people complain, dine, play, graffiti, sing, dance, free-run, and vandalize the cube. And watch 20,000 people watch the livestream CCTV. Then it disappears.
The show, in 2000 was the first time Kevin Pringle, a professional learning-disabled actor played the role of Lennie in John Steinbeck’s tragic tale. Demand for the show was so great that it toured twice more. Over 130 shows. Kevin Berry, critic from the stage said this production re-defines what is possible in the theatre. It won the TMA/stage award for outstanding achievement in regional theatre.