Andy Field (Blogger)

Andy Field (born 1983) is a theatremaker, blogger, curator and academic born in Stockport.

Biography

He 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^[1] and has since curated events, entitled "Microfestivals", in venues across the UK and Europe.^[2] 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 Melanie Wilson, which has travelled to venues throughout the UK.^[3] 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. " ^[4] Most recently Forest Fringe created a book of DIY performances to be read at the Edinburgh Festival called "Paper Stages", featuring performance texts by Tim Etchells, Action Hero and Tania El Khoury. Readers could obtain a book by volunteering one hour at a local Edinburgh charity during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.^[5]

He regularly blogs about art and experimental theatre for the Guardian Stage website^[6] and operates his own blog called Looking For Astronauts.

He has created and toured his own contemporary performance work in the UK and Europe, often featuring German performer Ira Brand and Canadian performer Chris Bailey. He recently completed a practice-led PhD at Exeter University exploring the relationship between contemporary performance practice and experimental art happenings in the 1960s and 1970s in New York.^[7]

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.^[8]

Theatre Performances

• "Zilla". 5–6 May at the Junction, Cambridge
• "Motor Vehicle Sundown". February 2010 at the Arches, Glasgow. 10–19 August at SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto. 6–15 September at BAC, London.^[9]
• "Crashsite". February 2012 at Culturgest, Lisbon.

Forest Fringe Awards

• 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

External links

• Forest Fringe
• Looking for Astronauts

References

1. "Build It" (PDF). Live Art Development Agency. September 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
2. "Microfestival Lisbon". Forest Fringe. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
3. "Travelling Sounds Library at Ovalhouse". Ovalhouse. 1 November 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
4. "About Us". Forest Fringe. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
5. "Paper Stages". Exeunt Magazine. 10 August 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
6. "Andy Field Profile". London: The Guardian. 23 July 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
7. "How Can Performance Act Historiographically". University of Exeter. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
8. "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.
9. "Motor Vehicle Sundown Review". Fife Today. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.