Deborah Pearson

Maker of Live Things

Category: Performance

The Talent

A woman is in a soundproof booth on a dark stage speaking into a microphone. She is wearing headphones smiling and has her hands wide stretched in a gesture.

A woman in a sound booth is talking. She is talking to herself. She is talking to you. She is talking to everyone. She is gifted, professional, mercurial; it seems as if she can summon almost any kind of voice and create any kind of world. She is selling you somethingShe is telling you a […]

Make Yourself At Home

There is a pile of cardboard cut outs of furniture, such as tables, and sofas and TVs. On the wall behind is a sign that says 'History, History, History, Deborah Pearson, Canada)

TEXT BROUGHT OVER FROM OLD SITE – Not visible – just for Sarah field entry purposes Inside an empty cardboard box big enough for two adults to sit in, you meet a stranger. A stranger who wasn’t born here. They want to make you feel at home. After they’ve made you tea, they ask you to […]

History History History

Deborah Pearson holds up a white banner on a stick while a film is being projected onto a wall, this casts the shadow of the banner and Deborah Pearson onto the film. The film is of people protesting.

TEXT BROUGHT OVER FROM OLD SITE – Not visible – just for Sarah field entry purposes “A roving and inventive presentation.” – Sight and Sound Magazine In 1956, there was a popular uprising against the USSR in Hungary. The battle was fought primarily from the Corvin Cinema, and the uprising lead to one of the […]

The Future Show

Deborah Pearson in a black dress is crouched on the road, next to the words 'The Future' written in chalk

TEXT BROUGHT OVER FROM OLD SITE – Not visible – just for Sarah field entry purposes “As soon as I finish speaking you will clap. Even those of you who were a bit bored will clap because it’s a comfortable way to signal an ending.” The Future Show is both a performance and an on-going […]

No Time To Sleep

A man in an orange jumpsuit is lying on a cell on a rug.

TEXT BROUGHT OVER FROM OLD SITE – Not visible – just for Sarah field entry purposes   A 24 Hour Live Performance, filmed and streamed in Lahore, Pakistan. Starring Sarmad Khoosat, created collaboratively by Olomopolo, Ryan Van Winkle and Deborah Pearson, from a concept by Ryan Van Winkle. No Time To Sleep was performance activism […]

MON€Y

Three people are sat on a stage at a kitchen counter. Above them are signs - one which says 'Rir', one which says 'Emoção' and a thrid that says 'Aplaudio'

TEXT BROUGHT OVER FROM OLD SITE – Not visible – just for Sarah field entry purposesI said, are you ready to laugh? A collaboration with mala voadora Written by Deborah Pearson Translated into Portuguese by Marco Mendonca Directed by Jorge Andrade Set design by Jose Capela MON€Y was the result of a long residency with […]

The Filibuster

A lego figure with a concerned expression is standing against a blue podium

TEXT BROUGHT OVER FROM OLD SITE – Not visible – just for Sarah field entry purposes   The Filibuster is a 12 hour durational performance piece featuring a series of female identifying performers speaking spontaneously at a podium, tackling the baggage around public discourse and women. The first performer is 13 years old, and the piece features […]

Post National

Twelve people each with a runners number pinned to their tops are sat on a stage. In the background there is a mosaic of maps. One person has their hands up. Everyone has their eyes shut.

TEXT BROUGHT OVER FROM OLD SITE – Not visible – just for Sarah field entry purposes Instructions towards an uncertain Future Available for touring in 2018 ‘‘There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada.  There are shared values — openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search […]