Swimming Home for Kensington + Chelsea Festival
Are you ready to dive in?
BOOK YOUR TICKET for SWIMMING HOME.
A 35 minutes immersive experience for one person at the time IN THEIR OWN BATHROOM.
Swimming Home plays with the liminal, with the gap between imagination and reality, and urges you to let go and float away. It pays off: when you are finally allowed to submerge and dip your head under the water, it is oddly exhilarating. ✭✭✭✭ The Stage
SWIMMING HOME is Silvia Mercuriali's latest Autoteatro piece, leading participants through a private meditation, all the way to the bottom of a deep pool. You will be immersed in an aquatic and sonic world in which the ordinary becomes fictional and your surroundings take on a new poetic meaning.
Being encouraged to stop, to listen and to observe made me realise how little I’ve switched off lately. Audience member
Written following interviews with swimmers, swimming coaches and water lovers from all over the UK, the piece gently suggests a new look at the ritual of bathing.
Available in English, Italian and French.
Download the app MERCURIOUS NET - National Ear Theatre, to access the show directly from your phone.
MERCURIOUS NET is available worldwide. The app automatically adapts to your local time, so whatever slot you chose the time indicated refers to you Local Time Zone.
The show starts at YOUR LOCAL TIME ZONE.
YOU NEED
A swimsuit, swimming goggles, a big towel, a mirror (if you don't have one in your bathroom).
Make sure your phone is fully charged and that you have a good internet connection.
The piece is to be experienced with headphones in your own bathroom (wireless headphones are preferable but not necessary).
Breathe. Dive in.
From the 25th of July until the 7th of August Swimming Home is part of the Kensington + Chelsea Festival programme.
