performance
      Devised theatre and contemporary performance projects created since 2001, that engage site based performance, interdisciplinary practice and experimental composition, produced by Sue Palmer  
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
     

It Is For The Tiger

I love the tiger, and the tiger would still eat me, yes.

A devised solo performance talk about tigers and humans touring from 2005 to 2010. Thoughtfulness, humour, awe and desire collaborate to imagine the tiger more alive than extinct, more fur-nomenal than digital.

Using the tiger as a lens to focus on the more curious aspects of human behaviour, the work investigates wildlife documentaries, zoos, the 'wild', fur and purr, tagging and male potency drugs.

www.biggerhouse.co.uk/tiger   

 
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
       

Work in development:

Difficult Pony

a series of 2-3 minute videos and animations made around horses and women, girls and ponies and growing up in Somerset. The work is an initial exploration of ideas and connections.

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Shown in September 2007 as part of Take Art 'Made In Somerset'
http://www.takeart.org/theatre/made_in_somerset.html
http://www.merlintheatre.co.uk/show.asp?id=388

 
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
       

psi: mid space: 2003-04

A peformance project about psychic phenomena and our perceptions of time, space and thought.

www.biggerhouse.co.uk/psi

 
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
     

Hair Raising: A Year of the Artist Residency - February 2001

A combined arts residency all about hair, in GJs Hair Salon, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: a devised site specific performance in collaboration with Vic Llewellyn performed over 10 day residency. 

watch video on youtube.com

www.biggerhouse.co.uk/performance/hairraising

 
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
 
         
       

The Price of Clouds

A site-specific work in residence at Brantwood, former home of John Ruskin at Coniston, Cumbria; an 18 minute 'performed' guided tour of the Dining Room for the general public visiting the museum, resulting from intensive research and study of Ruskin's life and work - July 2001.

 
 
         
 
         
             
             
       

Research

Research in performance :: site based performance, dialogical practices, autobiography, interdisciplinary practices, video and animation in relation to live performance. Consciousness, the structure and workings of the mind, the field of psi, meditation practices, transpersonal psychology, animal and animal mind.