Photo: Federica K. Silva
Emergency Festival: Free, non-stop performance in Manchester Catherine Love encounters a "a Choose Your Own Adventure storybook of performance" at Emergency Festival in Manchester. [Exeunt Magazine] "Emergency, a free day of non-stop performance, occupies the building with an apt sense of playfulness. The shows and installations might not be for kids, but still there are stories, games, a spirit of exploration. As I walk in, the atrium is temporarily home to a group of men moving in ever-tightening patterns, stuck in a repeating loop of constriction and collision. Peter Jacobs’ performance installation No Man Is An Island is suggestive of the restrictions of patriarchal society, which hems in men as much as it does women. But it also looks a lot like a game – one whose rules, perhaps, we can change." Review: Emergency Mini-Festival @ Z-Arts [The State of the Arts]
"The next piece we encountered was No Man Is An Island by Peter Jacobs, which involved four or five burly, bearded men in black summer dresses walking vaguely yet specifically around the Atrium to an ominous, atmospheric soundtrack. This piece supposedly explores “perceptions of public, personal and private space”. Perhaps it was the durational nature of the piece, or it being housed in the sunny thoroughfare Atrium space, but it didn’t keep me engaged long enough to catch up with it. A space that reflected the moodiness might have been more fitting, or perhaps it just wasn’t for me – but we quickly moved on." NO MAN IS AN ISLAND: Stewart Richard Ainsworth, Peter Jacobs, Keith Moggach, Eric Miller and Valentinos Thomos Photography: Julian Richard Evans
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND is a durational performance that explores perceptions of public, personal and private space, freedom and restriction through subtle gameplay and movement within a series of fixed spaces – concentric squares. Durational performance [two hours] Devised and created by Peter Jacobs Performed by Stewart Ainsworth, Peter Jacobs, Eric Miller, Keith Moggach and Valentinos Tomos Costumes by Peter Jacobs with Keith Moggach Music: Macroform | Northhive | Re-drum | Seetyca | Torsten Hentschel | Waterplea | Emerge / Sustained Development | Hikikomori | Jari Pitkänen | Jaroslav Lorenc | Minervae | Mons Jacet | Nasienie | Subterrestrial | Aires | Russell Mills. Compiled by Peter Jacobs With thanks to Tamsin Drury and Word of Warning and hÅb, Ged Jones, Steven Rolfe , Andy Green and Andrew Clarke. Photography: Andy Green
A durational performance installation that explores perceptions of public, personal and private space, freedom and restriction through gameplay and movement within a series of fixed spaces. A group of men in a performance area of ever-decreasing size: With a random and unknown hierarchy that turns on its head as those with the most space become those trying to fit into a space where there is none left. Peter Jacobs is an experienced performer currently exploring new opportunities within performance making. Having performed in many different artists' projects as a volunteer, in 2014 he started to devise his own concepts. His interests lie in exploring ideas of ordinariness and the unthinking choreography of unconsidered everyday life. He is also interested in dystopian worlds, censorship, ageing, masculinity and male sexual identity. Emergency 2016: a free day out for the curious Photography: Steven Rolfe
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