GERALDINE PILGRIM
Geraldine Pilgrim director/designer/Installation artist and educator, works across theatre and the visual arts and is known for her evocative participatory site-specific performances and installations, which create a contemporary dialogue with occupied and empty buildings, landscapes, and historic houses.
She is Artistic Director of Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company that creates socially engaged participatory site- specific and theatre performances working in collaboration with young people, older people and arts and community groups supported by a professional creative team.
Her particular site- specific work specialises in performances and installations in unusual buildings and landscapes where the architecture of the site is used as inspiration and narrative, gradually revealing memories and atmospheres that have built up over the years, together with the history - imagined and real - of the space.
Her performances and installations in the UK and mainland Europe have taken place in empty Office Blocks, Schools, Hotels, Swimming Pools, Factories and Hospitals as well as Castles, Stately Homes and Public Parks. Geraldine has been commissioned by Heritage organisations, including -Blenheim Palace, Wakehurst Kew, Kew Gardens, Stourhead Harewood House, National Railway Museum York, 14-18 NOW, National Trust, English Heritage, and the Royal Pavilion Brighton.
She trained as a fine artist and theatre designer, co- founded and became Artistic Director of Hesitate and Demonstrate the influential visual theatre company which toured Britain and mainland Europe and has since been making large and small- scale site-specific performances, installations and theatre- based work.
As an artist/educator, she is an Associate Lecturer for MA PDP at CSM -UAL and MA Performance Making MA Performance Making and MA Performance Writing and Dramaturge at Goldsmiths College- UCL and a visiting lecturer in many Universities and Colleges throughout the UK. She created and led as Head of Department the recently closed MA in site- specific theatre practice at Shoreditch Town Hall for Mountview.
Independently, Geraldine runs courses and workshops for emerging and established arts practitioners in the UK and abroad and also mentors and is a consultant for site- specific artists and companies.
She is Artistic Director of Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company that creates socially engaged participatory site- specific and theatre performances working in collaboration with young people, older people and arts and community groups supported by a professional creative team.
Her particular site- specific work specialises in performances and installations in unusual buildings and landscapes where the architecture of the site is used as inspiration and narrative, gradually revealing memories and atmospheres that have built up over the years, together with the history - imagined and real - of the space.
Her performances and installations in the UK and mainland Europe have taken place in empty Office Blocks, Schools, Hotels, Swimming Pools, Factories and Hospitals as well as Castles, Stately Homes and Public Parks. Geraldine has been commissioned by Heritage organisations, including -Blenheim Palace, Wakehurst Kew, Kew Gardens, Stourhead Harewood House, National Railway Museum York, 14-18 NOW, National Trust, English Heritage, and the Royal Pavilion Brighton.
She trained as a fine artist and theatre designer, co- founded and became Artistic Director of Hesitate and Demonstrate the influential visual theatre company which toured Britain and mainland Europe and has since been making large and small- scale site-specific performances, installations and theatre- based work.
As an artist/educator, she is an Associate Lecturer for MA PDP at CSM -UAL and MA Performance Making MA Performance Making and MA Performance Writing and Dramaturge at Goldsmiths College- UCL and a visiting lecturer in many Universities and Colleges throughout the UK. She created and led as Head of Department the recently closed MA in site- specific theatre practice at Shoreditch Town Hall for Mountview.
Independently, Geraldine runs courses and workshops for emerging and established arts practitioners in the UK and abroad and also mentors and is a consultant for site- specific artists and companies.