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We are Ben Kulvichit (he/him) and Clara Potter-Sweet (they/she), and we make performance together under the name Emergency Chorus.
Our ongoing preoccupations circle around states of crisis and emergency, the relationships between ecology, capitalism and technology, and ways of approaching and (re-)imagining the future. Our work is rooted in ecological thinking, examining the ways all things - technology, culture, nature, work, politics, identity - are entangled.
We make space for complexity, strangeness, playfulness, intimacy and ambiguity. Our performances often have a sense of being unresolved and open-ended; we think of the audience as ‘completing’ the work. Our work is experimental, in the sense that we always begin without a set blueprint or objective; in the words of Goat Island, we ‘discover the performance by making it’. We make performances as a way of knowing how to live in the world.
Our collaboration began in 2016 while at university in the West Midlands, together with producer Emily Davis, sound designer Nat Norland, and lighting designer/technical manager Ciara Shrager. We’re now based between Bristol & London.
We have created and performed our work at/with venues and organisations including Warwick Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction, Old Diorama Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic, New Diorama, Camden People’s Theatre and BBC R&D.
We are both proud members of Interval Artist Collective in Bristol. We share knowledge and resources including an office and rehearsal space at The Exchange, Corn Street (above St Nick's Market).
Photo: Ben Kulvichit and Clara Potter-Sweet
ARTICLES / INTERVIEWSInterview: The Crush Bar (Fergus Morgan)
October 2023
so-far Journal - ‘Patience!: A conversation between Emergency Chorus’
August 2021
The Guardian - 'Making an entrance: 5 of the UK's best young theatre companies'
October 2018
COLLABORATORS(past & present)
ALICE BOYD / ZOË BRENNAN / BLYTHE BRETT / EMMA CLARK / AMY DANIELS / EMILY DAVIS / LILY LEVINSON / NAT NORLAND / HANNAH PARSONS / ALEX ROBERTS / CIARA SHRAGER / DANNY VAVRECKA / JEMIMA YONG
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