KansasKansas is an experiment in anti-cultural cartography; mapping sights that lack signifiers conveying the culture of which they are a part. By weaving imagination into the everyday, and in doing so expanding the meaning of what is ‘local’, the work invites audiences to share condensed points of view and explore where they could be right now. The sight-specific / site-non-specific work uses text, cartography and very basic quantum psychology and solipsism to seduce the audience into a space of possibility and impossibility, a space of imagination and re-imagination, a space of time travel and of fantasy. It starts with an elevator ride and invites the public to share further points of view throughout the general area. Actively engaging audiences in their own process of (re-)mapping toward an imaginative and playful interpretation of places that are somehow dislocated from their context and could be absolutely anywhere. Kansas is made and performed by Georgie Meagher and Malcolm Whittaker – originally for the 2010 ANTI Festival in Kuopio, Finland – which is part of the European Union’s A Space for Live Art. With the support of the Hopscotch Touring Initiative Kansas will be presented in Brisbane in 2010 and Bristol in 2011. Kansas was developed with the support of Bundanon Artists Trust, PACT Centre for Emerging Artists and Serial Space
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