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The Humble Market

Presented at the Foundation for Art and Creative technology, FACT Liverpool, for a period of ten weeks during the London 2012 Olympic Games, performed as a live performance connecting audiences in Derry/Londonderry, Preston and Belo Horizonte (Brazil), The Humble Market is an immersive, interactive exhibition and theatrical event that takes place in several locations simultaneously. It is the result of an ongoing collaboration between theatre makers, researchers and new media artists. The event was developed over a period of twelve months between Brazil and the UK. The practice-based methodology that underpins the development of the production is based on intercultural performer training and a Dramaturgy of Participation, which was conducted under the artistic direction of Jorge Lopes Ramos and Persis-Jade Maravala in collaboration with new-media artists in Liverpool and Manchester. Ramos theorizes that a dramaturgy of participation is a type of live performance where the audience has the agency to be part of the production process and to construct the narrative of the performance. This process is carried out in the way that the performers interact with audience members, and gradually draw them into the role of active player, rather than passive spectator.

Links:

http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/the-humble-market-trade-secrets/

http://www.legacytrustuk.org/news/the-humble-market-trade-secrets/

http://www.andfestival.org.uk/events/performance-the-humble-market/