SET YOU FREE: A Eurotrance Deep Listening Event (2025)
Solo performance with after party, duration approx 1hr. 40
Commissioned by Full of Noises, Barrow-in-Furness
In development
Every winter, a travelling fairground takes over the centre of Loughborough, a market town in the East Midlands where I grew up. It arrives mysteriously at night and vanishes a few days later. Each year, I return on a personal pilgrimage to document the fair and have now gathered 15 years of footage. Using this personal archive, SET YOU FREE: A Eurotrance Deep Listening Event is my one-woman attempt to reroute Loughborough fair from its usual course and bring it to regional venues across the UK.
Part confession, part ride, part dance floor, the event unfolds in three stages. It begins with an attempt to commune with spray painted fairground signage depicting famous women, rendered in the style of religious icons. In a twist of events I then transform myself into a living, immersive fairground ride--reversing roles and engaging with the audience from this position. The performance culminates in a Eurotrance disco where the space shifts entirely, offering the audience a chance to physically process the experience and merge with the environment themselves.
Incorporating deep listening techniques, Byzantine iconography and magical thinking, the work attempts to excavate collective memory and invokes the fair as a kind of living organism.
Solo performance with after party, duration approx 1hr. 40
Commissioned by Full of Noises, Barrow-in-Furness
In development
Every winter, a travelling fairground takes over the centre of Loughborough, a market town in the East Midlands where I grew up. It arrives mysteriously at night and vanishes a few days later. Each year, I return on a personal pilgrimage to document the fair and have now gathered 15 years of footage. Using this personal archive, SET YOU FREE: A Eurotrance Deep Listening Event is my one-woman attempt to reroute Loughborough fair from its usual course and bring it to regional venues across the UK.
Part confession, part ride, part dance floor, the event unfolds in three stages. It begins with an attempt to commune with spray painted fairground signage depicting famous women, rendered in the style of religious icons. In a twist of events I then transform myself into a living, immersive fairground ride--reversing roles and engaging with the audience from this position. The performance culminates in a Eurotrance disco where the space shifts entirely, offering the audience a chance to physically process the experience and merge with the environment themselves.
Incorporating deep listening techniques, Byzantine iconography and magical thinking, the work attempts to excavate collective memory and invokes the fair as a kind of living organism.
“Many of our regular audience members are still talking about the event several months later and have fed back that it was amongst their favourite performances from across our 15-year history.... I personally felt that the quality of the work was exceptional.”
- Glenn Boulter, Director of Full of Noises
Past performances:
- Castlefield Gallery, 9 April 2025