Halfbread Technique

The DIY tour of Martin Schick's playful play! We use dance, humor, foreign money and the audience to imagine fresh and fun society

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Unusually excellent effort to cash in on superstition. Company and photographer unknown (circa 1940?).

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Beware!

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Artists Dictionary of Finance (F) Fear

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Artists’ Dictionary of Finance: (I) Informal Economy by Julia Raynham and Chuma Sopotela

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Perhaps a play at the Royal Court, however angry and urgent and edgy, is unlikely to bring about social change on its own, but at a grassroots level theatre-makers can enable communities to come together socially, end isolation, solve local problems and articulate their ambitions

Staging a revolution: can theatre be an effective form of activism?http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2016/mar/23/theatre-effective-protest-activism-change-debate

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"The play and the discussion were insanely good. We definitely need to be having more of these conversations" - audience member N *** Halfbread Technique DiY #9 post-capitalist for future entrepreneurs of Allan Gray Foundation 30.1.16 @ Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town

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artists’ dictionary of finance: (f) financial times

by kennardphillipps.com

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Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian

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“Economic freedom would mean freedom from the economy - from being controlled by economic forces and relationships; freedom from the daily struggle for existence, from earning a living. Political freedom would mean liberation of the individuals from politics over which they have no control. Similarly, intellectual freedom would mean the restoration of individual thought now absorbed by mass communication and indoctrination, abolition of "public opinion” together with its makers.“

Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, Boston: Beacon Press, 1964 (via yallashoola)

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By placing artists within public and private industries – from the National Coal Board to Esso – and later in governmental departments for months to years, not as ‘artists in residence’, and without the ultimate goal of producing anything artistic, Steveni and Latham believed they could offer radical insights into social problems. These would be offered via proposals made at the end of the placements, which, if taken up, could have a transformative impact upon the world of work. At the same time as finding themselves socially useful in very real ways, artists would develop new ways of working as a result of their experiences.

Inspiration for alternative ways of merging art and society; or fitting artists into the money-economy: ARTISTS PLACEMENT GROUP part-consultancy firm, part-think-tank, part-artist collective (1966-1989)  More - http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/artist-placement-group/

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photographs by Kat HK

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the lovely cast of experiment #6 in creative post capitalism: Crezelda Maraba ...Choreography and dance  Yandisa Mtsotso ...Percussion  Guest performer ...Nompumelelo Rakabe Valerie Geselev ...Curator Supported by Theatre Arts Admin Collective

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Poster Design: Warren Turner

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Mandela, Dr. Dolittle and Post Capitalism. 2 weeks before the performance of Halfbread at the Obs Family Festival 0% of budget raised of the required R5000 budget 10 letters of sponsorship requests handed out to local businesses 1 no 1 maybe 8 unanswered  the economics of community fundraising are exhausting and yet it is very rewarding to see original questions of economics presented in a family theatre festival along classic and mainstream narratives

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First harvest of photographs from Halfbread performance at Greatmore Studios on 18th February 2014. All the thanks to our talented and committed photographer Xola dos Santos, who plays with us from day one!

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Imagine an internationally acclaimed artist standing on an empty stage and offering to share his salary with the audience: “who takes half of half of the stage and half of half of the money?” This is how it starts.

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Our performance and after-talk at Greatmore Studios in Woodstock were amazing! 

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experiment #5 in creative post capitalism

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First Halfbread Technique DIY for 2015 will be held on 18 February at the wonderful Greatmore Studios, Woodstock, as part of the 'More Great Talks' series. We will be playing with special guest choreographer and dancer Jackie Manyaapelo for audience of artists and curators.