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.
Management science
In the work place ...
,
video installation
Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has ...
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 perfor ...
.
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
Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...
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 ...
.
[Program, ''Gob Squad's Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good)'', ]On the Boards
On the Boards (OtB) is a non-profit contemporary performing arts organization in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1978. Originally located at Washington Hall in the Central District, the organization moved in 1998 to their current location in Up ...
, 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 mul ...
. 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