Heartsong Choir has been meeting to sing together every Tuesday for over 12 years. Outdoors takes place on the evening of choir rehearsal once a week for a year. Equipped with iPods and headsets, audience members trace the journeys of choir members to their rehearsal through the town. Outdoors conducts its audience in a joyful fugue of interweaving stories and song; a series of virtual solos, uniting in a choral finale.

There are a limited number of tickets to this event. Please contact the organisers to book one. Audience members will depart the arts centre at 6:45 pm. 

Multi-award-winning Rimini Protokoll is based in Berlin and is recognised as being among the leaders and creators of a new theatre movement that focuses on reality. Each project begins with real people in a specific place, and is developed through an intense exploratory process.

Alison Matthews is a performer and researcher working on a PhD through Aberystwyth University, through which she was awarded a 2011 Departmental Studentship and
Aberystwyth International Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Her PhD focuses on transaction and exchange in thefield of performance studies, "playing" with dramaturgies of capitalism, specifically service economy, to find new modes of valuing performance in and outside the theatre space through forms such as cabaret, markets, and one-to-one interactions. She is also a trained singer, and recently recorded a jazz CD with a Dublin-based quartet.

I would like to invite symposium participants, as well as a few Aberystwyth-based performers, to take part in a market, designed to facilitate questions of exchange and barter. 

5-7 performers will present a short "thing they do" on a graduated scale - ie, 10p might buy you a glance or a moment with the performer, whereas 1 pound might buy a more intimate encounter or more intense performance. I'm exploring how we value performance, and what determines a "more valuable" one - distance, duration, and intensity, and how the audience is then complicit in this participatory exchange as consumer.

Louise Ritchie is based at Aberystwyth University UK where she is now in her final year of practice led AHRC doctoral research, under the supervision of Professor Mike Pearson and Dr Heike Roms. Alongside her PhD research she teaches on the Performance Studies undergraduate program at Aberystwyth University.

This expression of interest forms a major phase in my PhD research focused on the analogue arrangement of practice and how this may inform the development of a website that will function as a pedagogical tool for communicating movement. The space will be set up as an installation; photographs will be mounted on the walls, pre-recorded instructions will feature on MP3 players and videos will appear on monitors within the space. Following a short introductory presentation on the research, delegates will be invited to physically participate with the materials navigating and recording their pathways through the space. During this session personal pathways, questions and critiques will be collected and recorded onto a large site map held within the space. It seems essential that in order to develop a website that functions as a pedagogical tool, one should first develop a real time analogue assessment of how users interact and navigate their way through the material. One of the key questions will be to determine how the analogue environment may influence and direct the construction of digital space, identifying the ways in which physical participation may lead the way into and out from the web.

Having trained as a dancer, I have been making performance and installation since 1998. My work, often durational and/or site-responsive, seeks to highlight the embodied engagement of both performer and spectator in the shared moment of performance. Much of my work focuses on what is present in phenomena conventionally perceived in terms of absence or lack (silence, stillness, waiting); recent work engages knitting in performance to investigate ways we experience time and space. I have presented my work, performed and taught throughout the UK and internationally.
I am currently undertaking PhD research in performance at Queen Mary, University of London. 

On entering the performance space....

Video installation of 'The Standing Man'. Focusing on grid referenced locations within the Ordinance Survey map Sheet 135.

This film will be playing throughout the event.