ALL EARS Set for Arts House in September

New Zealand-born, Brussels-based artist Kate McIntosh creates an improvised and interactive laboratory for unusual recordings and acoustic experiments using everyday objects and materials.

All Ears is about being in a crowd and being an individual in a group as chairs are dragged, paper is torn, glasses are toppled - these sounds are recorded and played back along the way.

In the silences in between, questions arise about who we are alone and how we are together; about what it might take to change a culture and what we might miss in the push for self-sufficiency.

As curious scientist, mischievous questioner and eclectic storyteller, McIntosh creates a distinctive journey made of parables, fragments and jokes: of human and animal behaviour, of crowd control and linguistics, politics and group dynamics, birds and traffic jams, societies and social interactions.

With both lucidity and off-beat humour, All Ears beautifully balances on the thin line between experiment and entertainment.

As a founding member of SPIN, the artist-run production and research platform based in Brussels, McIntosh originally trained in dance and has performed internationally since 1995 working as an artist across the boundaries of performance, theatre, video and installation.

Concept, Text & Performance Kate McIntosh Dramaturge Pascale Petralia and Tim Etchells Sound Designer John Avery Lighting Designer ChrisCopland Technical Director Akim Hassani Production Coordinator Ingrid Vranken Produced by SPIN 'Now' score courtesy Tim Etchells

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