MONSTROUS MUSINGS, UNCONSCIOUS UTTERANCES

Frankenstein's Ghosts

CREATED BY
MICHAEL MONTANARO, ANNE-MARIE DONOVAN, ANN SCOWCROFT, NAVID NAVAB,
JÉRÔME DELAPIERRE, PETER LYNE, PAUL PULFORD, LISELYN ADAMS, BEVERLEY JOHNSTON

Frankenstein's Ghosts is a collective creation-research project to build a hybrid critical discussion and multi-media performance work based on the substantive issues raised in Mary Shelley's seminal novel, Frankenstein.

In June 2007, several of the project collaborators received SSHRC funding to bring together an interdisciplinary team of academics and artists to share in a deconstruction, analysis and exploration of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. This came from a desire among academic scholars to explore artistic transformations of their discourse as a way of pushing their thinking even deeper into the subject matter - working with artists who will transform their research into another "language." For the artists, the impulse came from a desire for deep understanding of the many substantive themes emerging from the novel before embarking on artistic creation. After the exploratory phase of the project, we began the creation of an 80-minute interdisciplinary performance work in late 2010. In June 2011, we held a workshop that culminated in workshop performances of the first running draft of the piece. 

Integrating systems, an environment "alive" with possibilities, multiple dimensions, multiple senses, human performers and non-human agencies in a continuous blend of active media, innovative forms of interaction, collaborative communications, immateriality and physical reality becoming intertwined & enriching our thinking.