Exploratory labs whereby collaborators turn personal stories of fear in to monsters using specially designed props. With it's origins in Eelyn Lee's 5-day lab at the Barbican in December, 2014, this workshop has become a creative line of enquiry in its own right.
Eelyn has run the workshop with professional actors, art students, a young orchestra, in a public library and with an amateur dramatics group on Canvey Island.
Working closely with Art Director Chriostopher Kelly, Eelyn is interested in transforming the human body using carefully selected materials and bespoke props to make monsters made of fragments of stories of fear. Particpants explore backstory of the creature they have created and develop character through performance techniques.
The Fear Lab with Cast and Crew, a drama workshop on Canvey Island explored stories of fear assiciated with the estuary and collective memories of the east coast flood of 1953, in which many Canvey residents lost their lives and homes. One of the monsters created inspired the image above - a mud monster who appears in Eelyn's film, Creature of the Estuary.
- student participant, Seevic College
Monday, 15 February 2021
Casting Fu Manchu is currently showing as part of the CAN Festival 2021 [15th Feb - 30th Apr 2021]. Following the premiere screening these were some fo the comments about the film, "... a brilliant and... Read More...
Thursday, 04 February 2021
Eelyn Lee's latest film, Where Two Rivers Meet will premiere on Feb 25th at 8pm GMT as part of the online event, Digesting History. The film is a creative documentary about Collections in Verse, a poetry project that took place in libraries across Sheffield just before the pandemic. Cleverly weaving the story of the project together with the story... Read More...
Tuesday, 01 December 2020
CAMP have invited Eelyn Lee to present an online talk on Thurs 10th Dec 6.30 - 8.00pm GMT as part of their guest artist's programme. Eelyn will talk about Resilience and Radical Care in relation to her experiences of co-founding Social Art Network and her subsequent involvement in other artist’s networks. She will touch upon network building as... Read More...