Public Projects

‘Impossible to pigeon-hole, crosses boundaries and brings people together.'
The Guardian, UK

Lone Twin create community-based projects and performances for specific sites and locations. The projects can be adapted for new contexts, and co-commissioners are sought for the projects in development. Current projects available for touring include:

The Boat Project - Winner of 'Artists Taking The Lead' for the South East

A large-scale public art project commissioned for the Cultural Olympiad that will see the creation of a sea-faring boat. Constructed out of wood donated by the local community the boat will make a two-week maiden 'Olympic' voyage in June 2012, becoming the focus of four celebratory arts events.

Artists taking the lead is part of London 2012's Cultural Olympiad and challenged artists across the UK to submit ideas for works of art to celebrate 2012.  The Boat Project is one of 12 commissions across the nation, nine in each of the English regions and one in each of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Artists Taking the Lead has been developed by Arts Council England and is being delivered and funded by the Arts Councils of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Speeches

Members of the public collaborate with a professional speechwriter to create proclamations based on their knowledge and experience of a particular location; their home, their place of work, etc. Each highly subjective and personal speech will be given as a public performance and be sited in the location to which it refers.

Spiral

Commissioned by Barbican BITE07, a unique 8-day journey through the barbican estate took place. Onto a map a spiral is drawn, its circling path cutting through and across various public, commercial and private spaces on the preordained cross section of a chosen location. Taking the spiral as a path, over the course of a chosen time, Lone Twin walk its entirety inviting people to add to a growing collection of objects, which must join us to the spiral’s centre.

Street Dance

Street Dance is a process-based teaching and learning project aimed at creating a barn-shaking knees-up. Produced by HOME Live Art this major community dance project is being developed across three regions of the UK. Having premiered at Dance 4’s Nott Dance Festival in Nottingham during October 2009 it will progress on to Sadlers Wells in London and Dance East in Suffolk during 2010. Working closely with choreographer Jane Mason we develop an accumulative dance as it passes through communities and households, picking up participants of all ages and abilities as it grows.

Town Crying

Town Crying draws on the tradition of town criers announcing – in the form of a public pronouncement – local news, events and other matters of commercial and legal interest. Working with an official town crier, Lone Twin create a series of texts to be ‘cried’ across various locations of a city and its surrounds. These draw on micro-local events and are built from a period of research in the exact location where the text will be eventually cried. The research will build, through various meetings and conversations with local inhabitants, workers and passers-by, an eclectic sense of local events; part news, part hearsay, part first person utterance, part factual narrative, part fictional construct. Each text is then cried, in the traditional manner by a town crier, in-situ as a performance event and advertised in the area as such.

Cabaret Simon

Cabaret Simon is the first of its kind created entirely for children by Lone Twin and Stuart Silver in collaboration with performer Guy Dartnell. Commissioned by Barbican BITE09 and in collaboration with Discover children’s forum, this unforgettable extravaganza brings together a truly remarkable band of entertainers in a show that’s intriguing, surprising and magical.

Public projects in development