A Crash Course in Cloudspotting
By Raquel Meseguer ZafeAn invitation to pause.
To rest.
To listen.
A Crash Course in Cloudspotting is an intimate audio journey exploring the depths of human connection and the subversive act of lying down.
Over the past five years Raquel Meseguer Zafe has collected over 250 stories from people living with invisible disabilities and chronic illnesses around the country. This immersive audio installation invites you into the heart of these personal experiences. In this delicate and beautiful space, participants from across the UK and Europe will illuminate your horizontal journey with a gentle choreography of lights, activated in the space by patterns of rest unfolding in real time.
Originally scheduled to be presented at Mayfest 2020, we’re delighted to be staging this beautiful work in its home city for the first time.
A Crash Course in Cloudspotting can be experienced as a 35 minute audio installation or as a 55 minute performance.
Commissioned by Unlimited and Coventry City of Culture Trust with Arts Council England Support. Originally commissioned by Camden Alive and Unlimited.
Beguiling and thoughtful
Exeunt Magazine
Show Schedule
Audio Installation
- 35 minutes
- Wed – Fri at 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 4.30pm, 5.30pm
- Sat at 1.30pm, 2.30pm, 3.30pm, 4.30pm
Audio installation and Performance
- 55 minutes
- Wed – Sat at 6.30pm & 8pm
Access information
A Touch Tour takes place at 6pm on Saturday 21 May (you will automatically be booked onto the 6.30pm show).
A Relaxed Performance will take place at 6.30pm on Saturday 28 May.
This installation is audio led and therefore can be enjoyed by blind or partially sighted audiences.
Prior to the performance at 6.30pm on Saturday 21 May, we will be leading a touch tour of the installation. The touch tour will begin at 6pm.
Copies of the audio script are available for D/deaf audiences.
Find more info, including the audio description and text version of the full script on the MAYK website.
Please contact MAYK if you have any questions regarding access.
A Crash Course in Cloudspotting is about finding, making, and acknowledging the connections between people… the show lets us imagine ourselves as part of a web reaching out across the world.
Exeunt Magazine
This piece is one of the most significant Unlimited have supported, as it redefines not just who can become involved but how. For too long access has ignored the needs of a significant proportion of disabled people - those with energy related impairments. This work makes the invisible visible, and gives agency over to those who are usually ‘unseen’. And it does so beautifully, showing us that we are truly equal after all.
Jo Verrent, Senior Producer, Unlimited
