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The Expedition is a performance which explores notions of site,
narrative and journey. The performance begins by framing the world as
being a very dangerous place indeed. It's a nervous view which is heightened by the introduction of ice bergs, crevasses, freezing temperatures and sliding ice fields.
Strange
survival tactics - balloons which hold a last gasp of air, tin can telephones allowing for a final message and an SOS written
out with rice and pigeons - give the participants a small but vital glimmer of hope. This extreme landscape,
where Antarctica confronts Stoke-on-Trent, is aided by excerpts from The
Worst Journey in the World - the journal/expedition log by Apsley
Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott's expedition
to Antarctica. The performance was commissioned for Conjunction12: The Art of Survival.
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