Mapping 4d
Mapping4D is a company of artists who have been working together since 2002, to make devised work in the space between theatre, happening, and live art. The company won the 2004 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award. Mapping4D celebrates the live communication possible in theatre and explores the boundaries of its possibilities. We aim to catalyze unusual and dynamic relationships between the audience and the performance they encounter. The work is playful and delicate- revelling in the flamboyant as well as exposing itself in anti-theatrical bareness. Each project investigates the ways in which we are connected to one another in imagination and society - the intricacies of accountability, love, honesty, risk and possibility.
Mapping4D and the Darkroom
Mapping4D worked with playwright Lin Coghlan; the first time we had collaborated with a writer as a company. We approached the week as an exhilarating opportunity to be disoriented and to learn from collision, disarming ourselves by deliberately putting aside most of our normal practices and beginning from nothing but the encounter between our very different preconceptions about what theatre can and should be. This included an unsettling of the roles individuals normally play within the company. The resulting week became an organic (occasionally unnerving) and important process of wrestling, offering, trying and beginning to make real sense to one another. By the last two days we began to find ways to catalyse each other in an exciting exchange: Lin's ability to create powerful, unexpected, emotionally committed text feeding and pushing the structured improvisations we created, which in turn generated further possibilities and shapes. The work we made on the last afternoon surprised all of us and felt like the very beginning of a much bigger piece of work to come.
