Why I am and why I am not
Part 2: The Rooms
Quarantine
Information
Times: 1pm to 4pm
Tickets: Free – Booking Required
Running Time: 3 hours (approx.)
Age Recommendation: All ages are welcme
This event takes place in person at Battersea Arts Centre
The Rooms is part two of Why I am and why I am not, a weekend-long intervention inspired by Bertrand Russell’s famously controversial speech ‘Why I Am Not A Christian,’ given in Battersea Town Hall in 1927.
In The Rooms, the 12 people who made a speech from our balcony during Part 1: The Balcony take part in an interactive exhibition. Wander through our hidden spaces to talk to, listen to, and question the speakers in an intimate setting, away from the grandeur of their platform.
The speakers will reflect on the opposite prompt to what they began their speech from the balcony with – why they are, or are not something. The Rooms draws on the internal, away from the public eye, to present a delicate portrait of each person.
Why I am and why I am not is a meditation on our outer and inner lives, who we are behind closed doors and the version of ourselves we present to the wider world.
The Rooms is ideally experienced following The Balcony, a series of speeches from BAC’s balcony on Friday 6 March, but also works as a stand-alone experience.
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PART OF A PUBLIC ADDRESS
A Public Address sees award-winning theatre collective Quarantine take over the former Town Hall – now Battersea Arts Centre – to ask: who gets heard in a place like this today?
Part of Wandsworth’s year as the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture.
Biographies
Quarantine is an award-winning ensemble of artists and producers making cross-disciplinary work that explores what it means to live right now. Founded in Manchester in 1998, they create and tour projects around the world that are both intimate and immediate in their relationships with people, and global in their reference and scope.
Quarantine is known internationally for intellectually rigorous, socially progressive and inventive art that questions who gets seen, whose stories are told and who stands in for whom. Questions about representation lie at the heart of their work.
Credits
A Public Address is a BAC and Quarantine co-production, supported by Arts Council England.
Part of Welcome to Wandsworth, London Borough of Culture. London Borough of Culture is a Mayor of London initiative.
Why I am and why I am not:
Concept & Creation Richard Gregory and Renny O’Shea
Producer Kevin Jamieson
Access
PRE EVENT INFORMATION
The Rooms exhibition takes place across various spaces within Battersea Arts Centre. There is step-free access to the ground floor, and step-free access to the first-floor via a lift
Once you book a ticket, you will receive an email before the event detailing important information about your visit.
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
This event will be BSL Interpreted. Interpreted by Katie Fenwick.
If you require the use of BSL interpretation, you can let us know in the checkout when booking tickets, or you can e-mail boxoffice@bac.org.uk after booking your tickets.
This event will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to. If you need to leave the event at any point, you will be allowed to return when you feel ready.