CHAIR!

A performance that celebrates the act of sitting down.
When did our public seating disappear and what would happen if we brought it back?

Set in a dreamlike world, CHAIR! imagines how we can once again have public spaces that care. Where people can sit uninterrupted ready to relax, work, remember and have time and place to dream. This performance with chairs plus every day and surreal objects and actions reiterates the fact that everyone has the right to sit down.

Geraldine Pilgrim is a site-specific director/designer and installation artist. As Artistic Director of Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company she is known for her socially-engaged participatory performances creating contemporary dialogues with occupied and empty buildings, landscapes and historic houses, where the architecture of the site is used as inspiration and narrative together with the history – imagined and real – of the space. Her works have taken place in the UK and Europe in sites ranging from cemeteries and castles to factories and hospitals. Trained as a fine artist and theatre designer, and she is an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins UAL.