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BOBBY, LUNCH IS DARKNESS full video (2024)
Digital Artefact
Matthews, A. E. (2024). BOBBY, LUNCH IS DARKNESS full video. [Video]

Full video of BOBBY, LUNCH IS DARKNESS, commissioned by Arts Lancashire / Encounter Festival in 2021 and screened at Harris Museum & Art Gallery (Preston).

Performers: Tom Halls & Ali Matthews

DOP/Edit: Georgiana Ghetiu

Music: Ali Matthews

Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic (full show recording) (2024)
Digital Artefact
Matthews, A. E. Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic (full show recording). [Video]

This is a full recording of Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic, filmed at the show's premiere run at The Lowry on 26th October 2023 by The Lowry's production team, then edited by Georgiana Ghetiu.

Giving service and provoking rupture : the post-Fordist performer at work (2016)
Journal Article
Matthews, A. (2017). Giving service and provoking rupture : the post-Fordist performer at work. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 37(1), 139-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2016.1252076

In this article, I examine my practice-as-research pieces What The Money Meant and SERVUS! in terms of how their design and delivery make visible those labour and exchange relations characteristic of late capitalism. After a brief introduction, I tak... Read More about Giving service and provoking rupture : the post-Fordist performer at work.

‘What the money meant’ and the materiality of dollars (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Matthews, A. (2015, June). ‘What the money meant’ and the materiality of dollars. Presented at Colloquium for Artistic Research in the Performing Arts, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki Finland

In this presentation, I will discuss my recent practice-based scenographic investigation and performance 'What The Money Meant', shown at SITE 1/SAFLE 1 Festival at Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Wales) and Chelsea Theatre (London). 'What The Money Meant'... Read More about ‘What the money meant’ and the materiality of dollars.

The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium (2012)
Journal Article
Matthews, A. (2012). The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium. Performing Ethos, 3(2), 121-137. https://doi.org/10.1386/peet.3.2.121_1

This article proposes that by focusing on the professional complications of working in one-to-one encounters outside of the nominally aesthetic realm, performance-makers and researchers might discover ways of either mimicking or rupturing the form’s... Read More about The libido-maker’s apprentice : working the window’s proscenium.

The best of both Worlds : a busker's opera - touring show
Exhibition / Performance

A touring performance exploring the experience of being an expatriate in the United Kingdom and the country's current attitudes towards value and social mobility.

ACE funding is being sought for this project.