This 5-day workshop by award-winning site-specific performance artist Geraldine Pilgrim centres the site within artistic and performance practice, exploring ways of developing narratives inspired by site, creating atmospheres using objects and the use of space in site–specific performance.

Through a series of individual and collaborative exercises, the workshop explores devising non-verbal work, text as a visual language, the body in relation to site, and the dynamics of architectural space. The workshop will also include research prompts, contextual talks and discussions on the nature of site-specific practice, and will culminate in a series of sharings from the week’s explorations. 

The workshop will take place at London Performance Studios in a converted industrial building (rife with idiosyncrasies of its own), within the larger landscape of South Bermondsey, an area rich with industrial and ex-industrial sites, up-and-coming arts spaces, new build flats, older residential areas, and semi-natural, transitional spaces.