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Tales From a London Grotto is a collaboration between Shaun Caton and Weeks & Whitford. This new performance installation will create an immersive space of visual alchemy and enchantment. The performers will interpret and perform folkloric historical narratives, in relation to local London tributaries, and their associated histories, narratives and spirits. This occult knowledge will be uncovered through a collective mediumistic research process borrowing from psychogeography, séance, dowsing, scrying, psychometry, hypnosis and electronic voice phenomenon. The resultant performance will incorporate a grotto comprised of artefacts, sound scores, and a choreography of interrelated actions.
Shaun Caton has created almost 700 performances globally since the early 1980s working in museums, galleries, festivals and alternative spaces. His work is often ritualistic and dreamlike, tapping into the unseen world and making it visible in immediate and spectacular ways. Caton draws all his performances when planning them as part of the creative process. He also makes unique photomontages that relate thematically to his live works, recycling the same ritualistic objects, masks and appendages that he frequently uses in a collage type format he has invented. Caton has exhibited his paintings, drawings and animated films extensively throughout the UK and Europe. Recent highlights include il Giardino Grottesco at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019.
Caton has collaborated with Weeks & Whitford since 2015 and will do so again for their new performance as part of The London Open Live in 2025. Weeks & Whitford have performed together since 2010; they make complex intense durational performances featuring overlapping quotidian, magical, ritualistic and transformative processes.
