12 Last Songs heading to Reykjavik, Glasgow and Perth

12 Last Songs from Quarantine pitched at ISPA’s Manchester 2023 Congress. Part-performance, part-exhibition of people, the work is 12 hours long and invites a diverse set of 30 local people to demonstrate and talk about their work and how they see the world, creating a complex portrait of people and place. It brings people together who might not otherwise meet. Maybe a hairdresser cutting hair; a decorator wallpapering a wall; a cook making a meal. Or perhaps a psychiatrist, a philosopher, a politician... Performers interview each worker, with a text of 600 projected questions that move from morning to night, starting work to retirement, birth to death. Where English isn't spoken, we’ll collaborate with local performers and present it in the local language.

12 Last Song was part of the Reykjavik Arts Festival (June, 15, 2024). It will soon appear at Tramway, Glasgow (October, 2024) and Perth Festival, Australia (March, 2025). Future editions are still being planned to occur around the world across 2025-2026.

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Project Contact: Kevin Jamieson, Executive Director, Quarantine, kevin@qtine.com