Experimentica 14

Chapter’s annual five-day festival of live art.

Established in 2001, Experimentica is Chapter’s annual five-day Festival of live art. Experimentica hosts a dynamic programme of performance and interdisciplinary projects and offers a significant platform for UK and international artists to produce or introduce their work. The Festival can be entertaining, dangerous, confusing, life affirming, playful, provocative, witty, engaging, irritating and everything in between. This year’s Festival takes its title from the 2009 science fiction thriller District 9 (directed by Neill Blomkamp), a multi-layered allegory that explores our attitudes to outsiders. The title is not a theme but rather a starting point in which participants can explore how we co-exist.

Artists featured:
Tim Bromage, Gavin Krastin, Matt Ball, Justin Cliffe & Tracy Harris, Nathan Walker, GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Cian Donnelly, Sam Playford -Greenwell & Lucie Akerman, Phil Hession, Cathy Gordon, Dustin Harvey & Adrienne Wong with Zuppa Theatre, Mark Leahy, Threat mantics, Siân Robinson Davies, Eleanor Sikorski & Alberto Ruiz Soler, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, Paul Hurley, OFF THE PAGE with Samuel Hasler, Andre Stitt , There There, Beth Greenhalgh & John Abell, Iwan ap Huw Morgan, Harancza k/Navarre, Lolo y Lauti, Florence Peake & Jonathan Baldock with Ian Watson , good cop bad cop, Rhodri Davies & Lina Lapelyte.