Elevate Festival: Emergency Chorus
Past Works with Elevate Associates
Since 2022, Emergency Chorus have been hosting Past Works Recycling Plant, a night for ‘recycled’ performance. Rather than a scratch night for new work, Past Works Recycling Plant offers a space to explore old material — for example, artists have reworked material from retired shows, presented their embarrassing first pieces, compiled mini-retrospectives, and even auctioned off the intellectual property rights to all their unused ideas.
For Elevate Festival, Emergency Chorus will lead a day-long workshop with Exeter Northcott’s Associate Artists and Companies, exploring ways of recycling their artistic archive. They will think about how we as artists change and remain constant, and what we can learn from our past selves. An invitation to time-travel, making room for the unseen, the almost-forgotten, the stolen, the scribblings-in-the-margins, the what-was-was-there-all-along.
About Emergency Chorus
Emergency Chorus is the collaboration between artists Ben Kulvichit and Clara Potter-Sweet. Since 2017, they have been working across theatre, live art and dance, creating performances which collide disparate source materials to form collages of text, choreography, music and image. Their work deals with states of crisis and emergency, the relationships between ecology, capitalism and technology, and ways of approaching and the future, doing so with complexity, strangeness, playfulness, intimacy and ambiguity.
Previous works include Ways of Knowing, Landscape (1989), Town Criers and CELEBRATION, and have been presented across the UK at venues such as Warwick Arts Centre, Old Diorama Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic and Chisenhale Dance Space. They are winners of the 2025 Untapped Award.
Elevate Festival
This event is part of Elevate Festival, a week-long celebration of new work from South-West artists.
Barnfield Theatre
