fieldworks

Avdal and Shinozaki together started their own company fieldworks (formally named 'deepblue'). Since 2000 more than 20 productions were created, which all have been touring internationally. The various productions are concerned with “performativity” and allow for an open interpretation of movement as a heterogeneous combination of a variety of media. Consequently, the artists draw on a broad range of disciplines and expertise: performance, dance, visual arts, video, music, and technology. Every performance plays on the tension and contrast between the body and objects, the body and the mind, fact and fiction/representation, the tangible and the invisible, the organic and the artificial, ... Recurrent themes in the productions include the relationship between performer and spectator, the non-hierarchical approach to the various elements of a performance, and the exploration of both theatrical and non-theatrical environments. fieldworks productions are made for a wide variety of locations/settings, both public and private; for the theatre: you are here (2008), nothing's for something (2012), a supermarket: Borrowed Landscape (2013), a hotel room: Field Works-hotel (2011), an office: Field Works-office (2010), a concert hall: The Otheroom (2016 - a collaboration with contemporary music composer Rolf Wallin), or even a whole building and its surroundings: the site-specific project carry on (2015-20xx). unannounced (2017) is a performance on fragmentation of time and space that blurs the conventional distinctions between the ‘outside’ and the ‘inside’ of the aesthetic event, and that takes place in the black box as well as in its surrounding rooms, halls, corridors, foyer, offices, storages,… Avdal and Shinozaki’s latest stage work gone here (yet) to come is a piece inspired by the tactility of darkness and worlds underneath the surface we walk on, the landscapes under our feet and the layers beyond what is shown. Today’s new present presents itself as a challenge, as yet another space in which and with which to work, another space to interrogate, to infiltrate, to adapt to, and to subtly shift, from the inside out. Recently Avdal and Shinozaki have been performing the new site-specific projects in gaps & patches and elsewhere & elsewhen. Currently they are working on a new stage production titled “until”.