This public talk
offers a playful dive into language as a tool for artistic expression and an introduction to some of the strategies and concerns
that have motivated Etchells’ work as a writer and an artist across almost four decades.
Tim Etchells is a British
artist and writer whose work shifts between performance, visual art and fiction. He won international fame as the leader of
the Sheffield-based performance group Forced Entertainment. Moreover, his work outside this context has been exhibited numerous
times by prestigious institutions worldwide and comprises collaborations with distinguished artists from a variety of disciplines,
including Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Marino Formenti, Taus Mahakacheva, Vlatka Horvat and Elmgreen & Dragset. In 2016,
the Forced Entertainment ensemble was awarded the International Ibsen Award for its groundbreaking contribution to contemporary
theatre and performance. A collection of short fiction by Tim Etchells,
Endland,was published in 2019. Forced Entertainment
and Tim Etchells have performed several times at Wiener Festwochen, most recently in 2013 in the context of the festival parcours
Unruhe der Form and in 2021, together with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva, with the production
Heartbraking Final.
How Goes the World is part of the series
Histoire(s) du Théâtre at the NTGent and premiered in November 2023.
L’Addition was presented at last year’s edition of the Festival d’Avignon.
Preview Image: Chris Saunders
https://ail.angewandte.at/program/tim-etchells-words-worlds
