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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/comms-fail-by-roy-claire-potter/
SUMMARY:Bluecoat: COMMS FAIL by Roy Claire Potter
DESCRIPTION:Roy Claire Potter has worked with a team of fellow artists\, r
 adio astronomers\, amateur radio operators\, musicians and creative consul
 tants to research and develop ‘COMMS FAIL’\, a multicomponent artwork 
 that will unfold throughout 2026.\n\nSeveral iterations including\, a perf
 ormance\, a live radio broadcast\, an album with booklet\, and a sculptura
 l installation explore the grammar of communicative resilience and remote 
 connection by amplifying autistic perspectives.\n\nOn Saturday 2nd May at 
 the Bluecoat\, a staged performance written for three voices with music co
 mposed by Carmel Smickersgill\, will invite a live audience to help produ
 ce a radio broadcast for a remote audience. There will be gentle interacti
 on with ushers and performers to pick your preferred spot to enjoy the act
 ion\, and to contribute by making sounds or being quiet\, moving props\, o
 r being a witness.⁠.\n\nThe performance and simultaneous radio broadcast
  lasts for 1 hour and begins with ushers welcoming guests into a large\, d
 immed performance space. Live audio description of the audience settling i
 n and actors setting up their space will be audible in the room at first\,
  before transferring to headsets. Throughout the performance soft white sp
 otlights occasionally turn red\, acting as a cue for the live audience to 
 interact with sound-making props to herald listeners elsewhere.\n\nCOMMS F
 AIL is mixed live for broadcast on Resonance FM online and 104.4 FM in Cen
 tral London\n\nResearch and development has been generously supported by A
 rt Explora\, Paris\, and informed by consultancy from Erik Chancy (LB1KJ
 ) of Norsk Radio Relæ Liga\, Philippe Zarka\, CNRS Research Director at 
 Paris Observatory\, and by the work of Professor Philippa Browning at Jo
 drell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.\n\nLat
 er in 2026\, a live album documenting the performance will be released on 
 Cafe OTO’s digital record label TAKUROKU along with a booklet published 
 under their new imprint OTOHON\, containing the script and the visual scor
 es that informed the music. All proceeds will go to National Autistic Soci
 ety\, UK.\n\nThis project is an Unlimited UK Partner Award 2025 commission
  with Liverpool Biennial made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council
  England.\n\nFree\, booking required\n\nBook now: https://www.thebluecoat.
 org.uk/whatson/rcp-comms-fail
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LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K
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