{"id":30,"date":"2012-09-02T02:56:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T02:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-09-21T02:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:42:21","slug":"in-conversation-with-forced-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/in-conversation-with-forced-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"In Conversation With Forced Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"In Conversation With Forced Entertainment\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2012-09-02T02:56:29+01:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Simon in a gentle conversation with Tim Etchells\n\nIn there own words\nWe are a group of six artists.\nWe started working together in 1984 and in the many projects we\u2019ve created we\u2019ve tried to explore what theatre and performance can mean in contemporar...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/isotopica\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/isotopica-tyszko-12-6-2012-forced-entertainment.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"138.2\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3492\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/isotopica\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/isotopica-tyszko-12-6-2012-forced-entertainment.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3492','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/isotopica\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/isotopica-tyszko-12-6-2012-forced-entertainment.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playsimp2long5.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p>Simon in a gentle conversation with Tim Etchells<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/media\/1132_forcedent.jpg\" alt=\"forced entertainment\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>In there own words<\/strong><br \/>\nWe are a group of six artists.<br \/>\nWe started working together in 1984 and in the many projects we\u2019ve created we\u2019ve tried to explore what theatre and performance can mean in contemporary life. In doing so we\u2019ve made lists, played games, spoken gibberish, stayed silent, made a mess, dressed up, stripped down, confessed to it all, performed magic tricks, told jokes, clowned around, played dead, got drunk, told stories and performed for six, twelve and even 24 hours at a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>The work we make is always a kind of conversation or negotiation. We\u2019re interested in making performances that excite, frustrate, challenge, question and entertain. We\u2019re interested in confusion as well as laughter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s seriously playful work and we\u2019re still trying to answer our questions about theatre and performance \u2013 about what those things might be for us and what kinds of dialogue they can open with contemporary audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon in a gentle conversation with Tim Etchells In there own words We are a group of six artists. We started working together in 1984 and in the many projects we\u2019ve created we\u2019ve tried to explore what theatre and performance&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/in-conversation-with-forced-entertainment\/\">Tune in to this episode<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Conversation With Forced Entertainment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sonic-detours-with-simon-tyszko-on-resonance-fm-londons-premiere-arts-station","excerpt","zoom","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}