Street performance as part of RELAY

 

PGRG was a temporary collective of artists and performers, formed through a shared interest in conducting critical research to explore the nature of the group and the various structures which make up a community.

The idea of research though action was central to our investigations, devising performative works through collaborative methods. These actions took the form of public interaction, operating in a space between performance, conversation and social experiment, with the line between participant and actor blurred through the open-ended nature of the work. 

PGRG was founded by Goldsmiths MFA students in 2012. Members included Megan Broadmeadow, Sarah Duffy, Athena Papadopoulos, Lisa McKendrick, Stephanie Moran and Seth Guy. However the nature of the collective was open and structureless, and the group grew to accommodate the creative input from new collaborators for each of its projects. 

PACT was a LARP-style (Live Action Role-Playing) event devised and facilitated by PGRG in 2012 at studio 1.1 gallery, Shoreditch. When participants arrived they had the choice to take the positon of observer or player of a game of multiple outcomes. Playing the game meant joining an exclusive group, with your own position within it being determined by the luck of the draw.

 

The Sustainable Love and Knowingly Evil societies were two of the societies invented by PGRG during group role-playing sessions, tested out as part of RELAY festival, curated by Hannah Jones. It took the form of a fake freshers week stall at Goldsmiths University. Students completed a questionnaire to sign up, and received a free bag.