Audience Guidance, Agency & Bewilderment

This workshop explores immersive performances, and how to bodily engage audiences.
We start by looking at some of Kate McIntosh’s previous works, which propose tactile and social encounters between strangers. We discuss the ethics, possibilities and pitfalls of audience interaction - thinking about agency and autonomy, transgression, exposure, implicit and explicit instructions, refusal, and sensorial situations. After our conversation, workshop participants imagine and discuss their own immersive proposals.
This workshop is good for anyone who’s making performances (or curious about that process) and anyone exploring relationships with audiences. It’s also good for those who are curious about how works like In Many Hands (2016) and Lake Life (2023) and Worktable (2011) were made.