ARTIST PROFILE & PRACTICE
ARTIST PROFILE & PRACTICE
SOURCE POSITION
This profile uses:
- Peader’s interview;
- the student presentation;
- workshop documentation.
Distinguish direct artist testimony from student research.
EARLY CONTEXT
The student presentation describes Peader’s earlier experience through:
- post-punk music production;
- stand-up comedy;
- experimental and alternative theatre;
- performance clubs;
- training encounters with Zygmunt Molik;
- Eugenio Barba;
- Kathakali masters;
- a trainee-director relationship with Robert Lepage.
Treat this as student-presented biographical context.
MKULTRA
The presentation describes Mkultra as changing from something resembling a company into a network that gathers in different configurations for particular projects.
Peader’s practice is associated with:
- durational performance;
- site-responsive work;
- sound;
- objects;
- communities;
- public and private space;
- participation;
- identities;
- magic;
- hip-hop theatre.
LATER COLLABORATIONS
The presentation names collaborations with artists including:
- Matt Miller;
- Tom Cassani;
- Simon Mole;
- Gecko;
- Benji Reid;
- Gigi Argyropoulou.
Do not create separate Thoughts for these collaborators during this pass.
IDENTITY, MAGIC AND MUSIC
The presentation describes a later phase of work involving:
- non-mainstream identities;
- hip-hop;
- drag;
- stage magic;
- Batuku dance;
- family theatre;
- sound and music.
SITE AND SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE
The presentation connects Peader’s work with existing physical and social architectures.
The site is not only a backdrop.
It contains:
- routes;
- conventions;
- histories;
- power relations;
- social behaviour;
- objects;
- audiences.
“THIN MEDIATION”
The student presentation uses the expression:
THIN MEDIATION
to describe a reduced separation between:
- artwork;
- audience;
- performer;
- shared reality.
Label this:
STUDENT PRESENTATION TERMINOLOGY.
Do not present it as a confirmed direct quotation unless another artist source is attached.
DIRECT ARTIST ROOTS
In the interview, Peader identifies deep roots in:
VSEVOLOD MEYERHOLD
and:
BIOMECHANICS.
He connects this with:
- Charlie Chaplin;
- clowning;
- presentational performance;
- physical precision.