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Raquel Meseguer Zafe / Unchartered Collective

A Crash Course in Cloudspotting

Presentation

An invitation to pause. To rest. To listen.

Raquel Meseguer Zafe has gathered over 300 stories from people living with invisible disabilities and chronic illnesses. This immersive 35-minute installation /  55-minute installation and performance invites audiences into the heart of these experiences, while participants from across the UK illuminate the space with a gentle choreography of lights. Patterns of rest unfolding in real time.

“Beguiling and thoughtful” Exeunt Magazine

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Credits

Artist: Raquel Meseguer Zafe
Artist & Theatre Designer: Sophia Clist,
Composer & Sound Artist: Jamie McCarthy
Dramaturge & Performer: Laura Dannequin
Artist & Designer: Tom Metcalfe
Lighting & Sound Designer: Charles Webber
Software Developers: David Haylock & Joseph Horton
Publication Design: Lily Green (No Bindings)

Featured Stories:
Too Heavy, J. Mclaughan
Lecture Theatre, I. Ailing
Hazard Tape, A. Morgan
Toilet Floors, A. Berry
They Struggle to Understand me, J. Mander, read by E. Neat
The Flight Attendants were Most Amused, A. Morgan
Beautiful Day, Anon
The City Spreads Out Before Me, M. Smith
The Beach (at night), N. Nov

We’d like to acknowledge extracts of text from S. Kelly’s Endurance, the True Story of my Year in Space.

A Crash Course In Cloudspotting by Raquel Meseguer Zafe, Produced by MAYK.
Commissioned by Unlimited, Camden Alive & Coventry UK City of Culture 2021.
Supported using public funds by Arts Council England.

If you would like to get in touch about this work, please contact Hannah Slimmon, International Development Manager. Email:hannah@horizonshowcase.uk

A concrete urban landscape, tower blocks, trees and metal railing set against a pale blue sky. In the foreground, a woman with long, brown, curly hair lies on her back on a concrete bench with her eyes closed. She is wearing a yellow t-shirt, a black zip-up hoodie and dark jeans. Her hair cascades over the edge of the concrete bench. Her left arm rests stretched outwards, her hand slightly lifted towards the sky.
A Crash Course in Cloudspotting by Raquel Meseguer Zafe. Image by Paul Samuel White.