Rhiannon Armstrong
When: Knotty 2020: Fragments of a Festival (online)
Link: Full Knotty 2020 Programme
How we might have met (and might still yet)
For the 2020 Knotty Performance Festival I was due to bring a team of artists together to develop and present Can I Help You? roaming around Hastings town centre.
Can I Help You? offers free help to passers-by and the general public. There are no plans and no boundaries: anything goes, the only requirement is that we figure it out together.
Meeting strangers is a big part of what drives Can I Help You?. I have been remembering the people I met in the past performing this work and thinking about those I won’t meet on the streets of Hastings this year.
So, I have created How we might have met (and might still yet), an interactive online space. It is not a website, it is a conversation between past, present and future.
How we might have met (and might still yet) takes the form of a list of meetings with strangers that have taken place over the years. Some things to know about this space:
– You can listen to the text instead of reading it by pressing the speaker icon
– There is no going back: like in life we will meet once, then move on.
– Look out for a surprise meeting, the end may not come when you expect it.
– It will look best on a smartphone or tablet
This project is part of Knotty 2020: Fragments of a Festival, an online programme of performance fragments created by Knotty 2020 artists.
Can I Help You? was a co-commission between Home Live Art and Applause Rural Touring
How we might have met (and might still yet) illustration: Tom Armstrong.
