No.1
Rag Factory
London | 2015
Murder. Bodies. Sex. Blood. And you get to play all the parts. Indulge in your fascination with crime in this glamorizing, fractured loop that explores cult films, serial killers, media and real life. Believe us, you’ve never felt sexier.
The Structure
What happens when murder film scenes are made to co-exist with transcripts of actual crimes? When our words and the words of real-life murders prove to not be that different? BARK is curious about why and how our morbid fascinations alter the horrific realities of murder. True events become glamorized media sensations, and, somehow, the films still manage to make the killers seem cool.
Mashing-up scenes from iconic murder films, interview transcripts of serial killers, and audience’s words on an endless loop, BARK invites you to indulge in your fascination with crime’s glamour and explore your relationship to it. What draws us in? What are the links between all of it - between the characters, between what we see and what we do, between what we enjoy and what we believe, between what is ethical and what is entertaining?
Created by BARK:
Tierra Bonser | Ana Diaz | Sam Howard | Ruth Adams | Jennifer Bates
“Thanks for an incredibly entertaining, smart, uncomfortable and crazy performance… I am a goddam witness to these crimes is what I am.”
“Your work, just like this piece, is an excavation of theatre itself.”
What is live-construction?
Live-construction is a performance style and devising technique developed by BARK in 2015. Mashing up devised performance with improvisation, live-construction is about building and arranging performance live before our audiences, tailoring content in a flexible and responsive way that is specific to the individuals experiencing it.
This type of performance thrives in the unknown and unplanned, holding audiences at the core of the work in both process and performance by consistently reconsidering the extent, meaning, and experience of liveness within a shared process of creation.
