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What You See / Don’t See When…

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  • Free
  • Performance
  • Auto-captioned
  • Audio described
  • Relaxed
Two people performing in costume in a warehouse. A furry orange cyclopes with one large eye and a purple head is looking down at Mamoru Iriguchi who is photographed mid-movement, with one leg in the air and hands out. On his head is an oversized 2D double-sided face with square glasses, he is wearing a grey costume with a drawn on suit and tie. "Mamoru" is printed in large black letters on the suit jacket.
‘What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed / What You Don’t See When Your Eyes Are Open’, Photo: Jo Hanley. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Come along to ‘What You See When Your Eyes Are Closed / What You Don’t See When Your Eyes Are Open’, a live performance piece about acts of seeing and being seen. It features Cyclops, a furry monster who sees the world two-dimensionally through his single eye, and Mamoru, a human with two faces, looking forward and back, who sees the world through his four eyes. 

Cyclops and Mamoru will lead exploration on what liveness means today and you may be invited to interact with the performers if you wish. In the live performance arena, unlike watching a screen, everyone – performers, technicians and audiences – will have completely different visual experiences of the same event.

Fragments of text will be embedded in the physical performance and a booklet of the performance script will also be available. 

Please be aware that the show will contain brief nudity.

Some performances may be filmed. Please get in touch or speak to a member of staff on the day if you have a question or do not wish to be filmed.

The show is a co-production with Schwankhalle. It is supported by Buzzcut, CCA, Dance Base, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Tramway, Magnetic North, the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Summerhall, Creative Scotland and Wellcome Collection.

Performance credits: Mamoru Iriguchi (Lead Artist), Gavin Pringle (Deviser & Performer), Susanne Zaun (Dramaturg), Harry Robert Wilson (Dramaturg), Alison Brown (Costume Supervisor), Suzi Cunningham (Movement Director), Kirsty Pennycook (Creative Access Consultant), Lydia Sasnovskis (Access Advisor), Sorcha Pringle (Audio Description Consultant), Daniel Cockburn (Outside Eye).

Dates

Past

Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Forum. To get there, take the lift or stairs up to level 1 and then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.

Place not guaranteed

Booking a ticket for a free event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.

Auto-captioned

There will be automatically generated subtitles for this event.

Audio described

Key visual elements referred to during this event will be described.

Relaxed

This is a relaxed event, which means that if you need to, you are welcome to move around and make noise at any time.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 0 2 0. 7 6 1 1. 2 2 2 2

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About your artist

Black and white photograph of a Japanese man wearing small wire-framed glasses and looking straight at the camera. The background is blurred.

Mamoru Iriguchi

(he/him)

Mamoru is a performance maker with a background in zoology and theatre design. The Edinburgh-based artist’s works often explore 2D and 3D, liveness and pre-recorded-ness, gender and sexuality, fairy tales and evolution theories. Mamoru’s performance works include ‘Sex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.)’ (Nominee, Best Production for Children & Young People, CATS, Critics Awards in Theatre for Scotland), ‘4D Cinema’ (Autopsy Award), ‘One Man Show’ (The Place Prize, semi-finalist) and more. His theatre design includes Mincemeat (Cardboard Citizens, Best Design, Evening Standard Theatre Awards).