Gob Squad is a British-German collective based in Nottingham and Berlin. They have worked collaboratively since 1994 in the fields of
performance
A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
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,
video installation and
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
.
History
Gob Squad was founded in 1994. At the time, its members were students at
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as a new university in 1992, although its roots go back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design, w ...
and the
University of Giessen
University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...
.
[Program, ''Gob Squad's Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good)'', On the Boards, Seattle, Washington, USA, September 27–30, 2012, p. 3.]
They have made approximately 28 projects to date. They create mid-scale work that combines audience interaction with
real-time video editing Real-time video editing is a system of editing video where it takes no longer to render a video than the length of that video clip itself. Live video editing is where there are various cameras at various angles and position, capturing single or mult ...
. The company often use
popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as, popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a ...
to explore the complexities of everyday life. Gob Squad create and present work in urban spaces, theatres and galleries
[Govan, Emma; Nicholson, Helen; Normington, Katie. ''Making a performance: devising histories and contemporary practices'', p.184.]
Core members of Gob Squad are Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, and Simon Will; Eva Hartmann manages the group.
References
External links
Gob Squad official websiteSPILL Festival Of Performance: On Agency, Edited by Robert Pacitti and Sheila Ghelani
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Performance artist collectives