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The Space

Celebrating how the cultural sector makes great digital work and finds big audiences online.

Episodes

  1. Disability Arts Consultant Maria Oshodi: Flight Paths

    03/08/2021

    Disability Arts Consultant Maria Oshodi: Flight Paths

    Created by and for a visually impaired audience, Extant’s latest stage adaption highlighted the stories of the blind Japanese female musicians, known as goze. Through a mix of animation, performance and digital video, the production team brought to life this lesson in cultural history using immersive multimedia and binaural sound. Providing opportunities and a platform for disabled artists has been a personal and professional quest of Maria Oshodi, also CEO and artistic director of the company, for many years. During her conversation with Fiona and Clare, Maria details the challenges they overcame in creating accessible digital content, and the unexpected freedom that emerged from working off-stage, especially when it came to reaching a wider audience. Experience Flight Paths for yourself: https://flightpaths.extant.org.uk/ Resources referenced during this podcast: Cathy Mager - Sign Night http://www.cathymager.com/portfolio/sign-night/ Dante or Die - User Not Found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcCvR4y2yk8 Filmed in Lockdown https://www.thespace.org/resource/filmed-lockdown Artificial Intelligence and Next generation Storytelling https://www.thespace.org/resource/artificial-intelligence-and-next-generation-storytelling Finding a younger audience, interested not only in technology but immersive experiences: https://www.thespace.org/resource/finding-audience Presented by Fiona Morris and Clare Freeman. Music: Jangal & Plantations - written & performed by Soumik Datta/published by Bucks Music Group Ltd For more about The Space, visit thespace.org

    23 min
  2. Writer Billy Barrett: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True!

    03/08/2021

    Writer Billy Barrett: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True!

    When the pope’s favourite artist was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl, the ensuing seven-month case was widely publicised. Award-winning theatre show ‘It’s True, It’s True, It’s True’ interweaves jaw-dropping court transcripts with history, myth, contemporary insight and moments of satire to ask: how much has really changed? And when it comes to change - that’s a topic that Billy Barrett and his theatre company, Breach, have had to embrace in recent times. Their show was due to return on tour at the Barbican over spring 2020, when a national lockdown threw a spanner in the works. But ever adaptable and ever ambitious, Billy and his team had already turned their three-woman-theatre-show into a digital film. Instead of taking the show on the road, the play aired on BBC Four, and was hosted on the National Gallery website to help Breach offer a new audience the best seats in the house. Billy explains to Fiona and Clare what challenges the team faced stepping into a digital world and why they discovered partnerships were the key to successful distribution. For more about Breach Theatre: BreachTheatre.com Resources referred to during this podcast: Creating Global Audiences: Fiona Morris, shares her thoughts on the ways in which digital technologies can help arts organisations create global audiences https://www.thespace.org/resource/creating-global-audiences Isolation, In Your Words - BBC Culture In Quarantine https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p08z Presented by Fiona Morris and Clare Freeman. Music: Jangal & Plantations - written & performed by Soumik Datta/published by Bucks Music Group Ltd For more about The Space, visit thespace.org

    41 min

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