On top of a black tabletop, two white sticks being puppeteerd by pink string. Blurred in the background are scattered black beads, a strip of light brown fur, and a curious audience in the shadows.

Matter Era

Tim Spooner and Terrapin

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Times:

7 May – 7:30pm
8 May – 7pm
9 May – 2pm

Tickets: Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £16)*

*All orders subject to a transaction fee of £2.

Running Time:

7 & 8 May – 1 hour
9 May – 5 hours

Age Recommendation: All ages welcome

This event takes place in person in our Members Bar

Please note: This is a standing event with limited seating available.

If you require seating as an access requirement please let us know when booking your tickets, or contact us on boxoffice@bac.org.uk after booking.

 

Part installation, part performance, Matter Era brings a post-human world to life through experimental puppetry and animated objects.

In collaboration with Tasmanian puppeteers Terrapin, UK-based artist Tim Spooner invites audiences into an ecosystem imagined entirely without people.

As the stage begins to breathe, unseen performers animate creatures that explore, flock and interact in captivating ways. A vision full of wonder and warning, witness life reshaping itself and imagine what might emerge when nature reassembles.

Viewable either as one-hour performance or as a durational event where spectators can come and go as they please.

 

★★★★★ ‘Terrapin has been shining a spotlight on significant questions for more than 40 years’ The Age

 

This event is part of Bloom, a programme of cutting edge performance developed at BAC. Bloom is curated by BAC’s Programme Producer Ella Gamble.

 

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