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Andy Field (born 1983) is an artist, writer, curator and academic based in London.

Biography

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He has created and toured his own contemporary performance work in the UK and internationally. He is most well-known for the work he creates in collaboration with young people. His performance Lookout has toured to cities including Beijing,[1] London,[2] Vancouver,[3] Cairo and Milan and in 2018 won the Spirit of the Fringe award at Auckland Fringe Festival in New Zealand.[4] He regularly collaborates with producer Beckie Darlington and in 2021, their project The Book of St Helens,[5] a guide-book to the town of St Helens created by 150 local primary school children, won the Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Impact Award for Improving Education.[6]

Andy is co-director of Forest Fringe, a multi award winning artist-led producing collective which originated in Bristo Hall at the Forest Café during the Edinburgh Festival in 2007[7] and has since curated events, entitled "Microfestivals", in venues across the UK and Europe.[8] Andy Field innovated The Travelling Sounds Library through Forest Fringe, a case of books containing audio-pieces by British Theatre artists, including Blast Theory and Stan's Cafe which has travelled to venues throughout the UK.[9] On their website Forest Fringe writes, "we try and serve as a bridge, finding imaginative ways to connect the country’s most innovative performance artists and theatremakers with new audiences, new supporters and new contexts for their work. " [10] Forest Fringe also created a book of DIY performances to be read at the Edinburgh Festival called "Paper Stages", featuring performance texts by Tim Etchells, Bryony Kimmings and Tania El Khoury. Readers could obtain a book by volunteering one hour at a local Edinburgh charity during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[11] In 2009 he and Forest Fringe co-director Deborah Pearson were named in the Stage list of the 100 most influential people in British theatre.[12]

In 2022, Andy and Deborah Pearson co-directed the feature film Dream Agency,[13] which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Between 2007 and 2011 he regularly wrote about art and experimental theatre for the Guardian Stage website.[14] In 2020 he collaborated with the journalist Maddy Costa to write Performance in the Age of Precarity, a collection of essays on theatre and art for Bloomsbury.[15] Field completed a practice-led PhD at Exeter University in 2012 exploring the relationship between contemporary performance practice and experimental art happenings in the 1960s and 1970s in New York.[16]

Forest Fringe Awards

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  • Herald Angel, 2008
  • Peter Brook Award Special Mention, 2008
  • A special Fringe First shared with The Arches for Innovating new forms of presenting work at the Edinburgh Festival, 2009
  • Jack Tinker Spirit of the Fringe Shortlist, 2009
  • Peter Brook Empty Space Award, 2009
  • Herald Angel, 2011

References

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  1. ^ "Watch: Lookout Beijing". Theatre and Dance. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. ^ Alt, Charlotte (21 July 2022). "Theatre project Lookout comes to Hackney". Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Lookout". PuSh Festival. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  4. ^ "2017 Auckland Fringe Award Winners". www.scoop.co.nz. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  5. ^ Caine, Jennifer (7 October 2021). "Schoolchildren launch "The Book of St Helens" a must-read new guidebook for the borough". Culture Liverpool. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Winners revealed in the 3rd Liverpool City Region Culture and Creativity Awards". Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Build It" (PDF). Live Art Development Agency. September 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  8. ^ "Microfestival Lisbon". Forest Fringe. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  9. ^ "Travelling Sounds Library at Ovalhouse". Ovalhouse. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  10. ^ "About Us". Forest Fringe. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  11. ^ "Paper Stages". Exeunt Magazine. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  12. ^ "The Stage/Newsblog/The Stage 100 in Full". The Stage Newsblog. 30 December 2009. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  13. ^ "Dream Agency | Edinburgh International Film Festival". www.edfilmfest.org.uk. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  14. ^ "Andy Field Profile". The Guardian. London. 23 July 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  15. ^ Costa, Maddy; Field, Andy (11 February 2021). Performance in an Age of Precarity: 40 Reflections. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-19064-1.
  16. ^ Field, Andrew Thomas (27 April 2012). How Can Performance Act Historiographically (PhD). University of Exeter. Open access icon
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