Gob Squad
Encyclopedia
Gob Squad is a British-German collective based in Nottingham and Berlin. They have worked collaboratively since 1994 in the fields of performance
, video installation
and theatre
.
to explore the complexities of everyday life. Gob Squad create and present work in urban spaces, theatres and galleries
Performance
A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...
, video installation
Video installation
Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has increased in popularity as digital video production...
and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
.
History
Gob Squad have made approximately 28 projects to date. They create mid-scale work that combines audience interaction with real-time video editing. The company often use popular culturePopular culture
Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...
to explore the complexities of everyday life. Gob Squad create and present work in urban spaces, theatres and galleries
Selected works
- 1995 Work
- 1996 An Effortless Transaction
- 1997 15 Minutes To Comply
- 1997 Close Enough To Kiss
- 1998 Calling Laika
- 1998 I Can
- 1998 Stars And Their Pies
- 1998 What Are You Looking At?
- 1999 Safe
- 2000 Say It Like You Mean It
- 2000 To@ster
- 2000 Where Do You Want To Go To Die?
- 2001 The Great Outdoors
- 2002 Neukölln sucht den Superstar
- 2002 Welcome to our world… built with you in mind
- 2003 Room Service (Help Me Make It Through The Night)
- 2003 Super Night Shot
- 2004 Prater-Saga 3: In Diesem Kiez ist Der Teufel eine Goldmine
- 2004 Who Are You Wearing?
- 2005 King Kong Club
- 2006 Me The Monster
- 2007 Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good)
- 2008 Saving the World
- 2009 Live Long and Prosper
- 2010 Revolution Now!
- 2010 Are You With Us?
- 2010 Before your very Eyes
Further reading
- Logan, Brian. "All the World's a Stage: Brain Logan Meets Lisa Goldman, Who Is Bringing an Electric International Vision to the Soho Theatre in London". New StatesmanNew StatesmanNew Statesman is a British centre-left political and cultural magazine published weekly in London. Founded in 1913, and connected with leading members of the Fabian Society, the magazine reached a circulation peak in the late 1960s....
, 16 March 2009 - Quiñones, Aenne, with Gob Squad. The making of a memory: 10 years of Gob Squad remembered in words and pictures, Synwolt Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3937065067, 9783937065069