Cupola Bobber

The Man Who Pictured Space from his Apartment

Chicago-based duo Cupola Bobber create work using a slow process of collaboration, research, and rehearsal. Mixing homespun engineering and bumbling wit, their work surprises viewers with its detail, humour, and care. With an eye on vaudeville, the night sky, and this note: "If I die, my knowledge may die with me", Cupola Bobber investigate the stars, the railroad, and their memories in a struggle to pinpoint something infinitely satisfying. 

Using intricate lo-fi mechanics, they convert a confined interior into an expansive nightscape, a universe out of cardboard. The light goes from bright to twilight to night... stars dancing together, disparate elements resolve in the kind of beauty that makes you sigh.

"A coup de theatre of rare sublimity" - The Chicago Reader

www.cupolabobber.com

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Thursday 13 November 5.15pm / Free
Community Exchange: Cupola Bobber Discuss Their Work While Looking at Goat Island's Archive

Cupola Bobber will curate a selection of extracts from Goat Island works that resonate with/have influenced their own performance practice. Stephen Fiehn and Tyler Myers will show related clips from their own collaborative work and speak around formal relationships, similarities or divergences of interest. This will provide an opportunity to discuss the way that performance practices / knowledges are passed-on, and transformed through intergenerational exchange.

Venue: Lecture Room, Dept of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, University of Bristol

One of a series of 'Performing the Archive' events. http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/?t=3&st=2

This Great Western Research Project is hosted by Arnolfini's archive and the University of Bristol Theatre Collection’s Live Art Archives.

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