I Used To Live In That House

Below are early thoughts as I glimpse and glance this idea into being....

I am a working-class writer and theatre-maker from Sandgate Road, Brighton, England.

Ann Quin was a working-class writer from Brighton at the forefront of British experimentalism in the 1960s. Born in Brighton, she died by drowning there too, having swum out to sea one bank holiday morning in August 1973.

Prior to her death, she published four novels: Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969) and Tripticks (1972) and has a scattered archive of unpublished writing, letters and diaries.

I Used To Live in That House explores presence & absence in the archive expanding questions of autobiography, diffusion & devolvement. There is curiosity to tangle with Brighton’s working-class heritage and examine the tension between its progressive cultural image and the ongoing economic and class-based inequalities experienced by many residents.

The finished work is ...maybe a sound walk...a performance in a found space..an audio-led performance experienced while audience bob or paddle in the sea.

Waves & frequencies as form and metaphor allowing for simultaneity, echo, interruption & disappearance while capturing in-between-ness & precarity.

I am currently applying to Arts Council England for funding for a protected research & development time