*Boy, Monique Van Dusseldorp's presentation was worth coming a long way to see.
I feel all edified now.
"RIOT 1831"
http://www.mobilebristol.com/flash.html?http://www.mobilebristol.co.uk/QueenSq.html
An Interactive Play for Voices based in Queen Square.
April 15th to May 4th 2004
"Imagine a play for voices. It is the Bristol Riots of 1831. The Political Reform Bill has been defeated in Parliament and the vote denied once more to ordinary people. Now those people are rising up and thousands of them have filled Queen Square in the heart of the city to vent their fury. You hear the rioters' voices as they plunder the surrounding buildings, the flames as buildings burn, the merchants as they flee for their lives and the Dragoon Guards as they sabre-charge through the crowds cutting the rioters down.
"As part of a three week experimental research trial visitors to Queen Square can immerse themselves in this dramatic experience in the very space where the riots took place 170 years ago. Equipped with a backpack and a set of headphones your movement through the square will trigger sounds and voices. Alter your position and you are in charge of who and what you hear. Art and technology have immersed you in the Bristol Riots and the experience is shaped by you."
