rebecca gamble

Hello and welcome to my website.

I am a UK artist, interventionist and creative researcher. My work operates in the practical and theoretical sphere of interactivity, bringing into play modes of social exchange, audience engagement, and participatory performance. My work is primarily concerned with human interaction and how the etiquettes and rules of a space determine how we behave and interact. I work site-responsively and approach urban and online spaces as my playground and stage, intervening with tactics, actions, and games.

In my current practice-as-research, the convivial mode of hospitality is tested as an artistic methodology to activate audiences in participation and radical investigation. Using a playful, participatory and performative practice, I am researching how we live, relate and interact in virtual environments while addressing the theories, ‘tactics’ and ‘constructed situations’ of Michel de Certeau and Guy Debord. This practice-as-research has so far included a speed-dating event with avatars between a physical and virtual café, an experimental dance workshop using the gestures menu from Second Life, and performative interventions as Mariela, my digital avatar.

I currently work from my artist studio at Primary, an artist-led space in Nottingham, that exists to support creative research and to develop new ways of engaging audiences.

Thanks for visiting me online.

Rebecca Gamble.

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Image: Summer Lodge Tea Studio, July 2010