aims

m&de aims to place emphasis on ideas emerging through practice. Artists work every day, engaging in collaborative processes, to make starting points and new performance 'moments'.

m&de aims to nurture an idea of collaboration based on a respect for differences between the art forms, and how those differences come together to create something other.

Artists are encouraged to let go of habitual ways of working, to embrace new collaborations, enter a place of not knowing to see what might emerge through those meetings. Whilst using their skills and knowledge, to approach each day with a sense of openness to new processes and exchanges.

Participants are all freed from taking the fixed role of composer, director, choreographer or performer. They function as individuals, not within previously established teams or companies and are therefore released from having to work to someone else's agenda. m&de allows each artist to participate equally in her/his own right. Roles are taken as the processes unfold. In this way m&de aims to keep the lab performer-led.

In being residential, m&de aims to enable artists to leave other work behind, spend time together and be immersed in the creative moment.

"The intensive and residential nature of the course makes it unquestionably unique. I don’t think there are any other experiences which build up to such a heightened creative intensity… and leave a lasting image burnt in one’s memory."
Karen Wimhurst - m&de participant 2005.