To ease your recovery from the hectic night before, start each Inbetween Time day with a free shot of hot espresso and Lecturama, a series of unconventional performance lectures contemplating life, success, the profound and the whimsical. Prepare for glorious confusion and surprises aplenty.
Events that are open to non Festival Pass holders are marked throughout the site with ticket prices and also below. Please note, because Festival Pass holders get priority booking, some of these tickets will only be on sale from Weds 1 February from 9.30am (phone) or 10am (in person).
Using PowerPoint, rock anthems, and audience interaction, Andrew "AC" Dickson and Susan Beal are out to convince you that eBay selling is not only personally lucrative, but is good for this country, and ultimately a meaningful step towards world peace and a better tomorrow. Blending theatre, performance art and corporate seminar, AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller is absolutely the best hour-long eBay education around, as well as “a very astute, highly entertaining treatise on capitalism, market forces, and the American dream that carries wry hints of send-up and satire.” - The Glasgow Herald
Where do we really feel safe? Often it is in the places that we are most familiar with; our homes, cars and shopping centres. This is a strange dichotomy as we also know these can be the places that we are at most at risk; not in dark alleyways but in the very places we seek refuge when those who would do us harm are not strangers, but our family and friends.
Gob Squad’s work is characterised by a desire to place Romantic beauty into the mundane by inserting home-made magic and spectacle into everyday life. For Inbetween Time, Gob Squad embark on the first of a series of research residencies looking at fear and its cultural manifestations resulting in a low key presentation of the outcome of their work.
After being voted Venue’s performance of the year, Paul Granjon has recovered fully after being kicked by his man size robot Furman during the last IBT. In 2006 he returns with a mixed bag of tricks, attempting once again to explain the progress of his research in the co-evolution of man and machine. Here he offers insights on artificial intelligence techniques and their relevance to the average human, out of tune love songs, primitive technology demonstration, low tech VJ display, small live machinery, and maybe hairy stuff again. It is not impossible that the Sexed Robots he presented for Wales in the Venice Biennale 2005 will also be mentioned.
Howard Matthew presents a performative lecture about the working history of slapstick by playfully examining some of the devices and props that are associated with the genre and a demonstration of the tools of the trade. Working with balsa wood chairs, sugar glass bottles and other tailor made props, A working history isolates the prop from its 'filmic' context and presents it as a live demonstration which allows the audience to examine and interact with the props themselves.
