Their debut Stampin’ in the Graveyard was a concept album/digital theatre piece that combined soundscapes and poetry to tell the story of the end of the world-it is now in development as a live piece of theatre titled Promised Land-an immersive theatre and sound experience that will be presented in October 2022 as part of the Bloomsbury Festival.Įlisabeth has studied and collaborated with many pioneers and award-winning directors including David Glass, Matej Matejka, Madeline Sayet, and the late Mary Overlie. She is the founder of the artistic collective Saksi Bisou, a migrant-led company that tells stories the corporeal and imagined landscapes of exile and migration. She has facilitated and taught at LASALLE College of the Arts, TheatreDeli, Italia Conti and the Grotowski Institute. For the period of 2021-2022, she is a resident artist at the Grotowski Institute, where she continued this exploration. In 2021, she was a recipient of Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice fund to begin her ‘Myths, Stories and Worlds’ research (née ‘Mythical Storytelling’), which continues to be the backbone of her practice today. Other ongoing projects include performing in Flabbergast Theatre’s physical theatre adaptation of Macbeth (national tour & Edinburgh Fringe 2022), and directing/co-devising Jasmine Chiu and Ellandar Production’s At Broken Bridge, which explores the intersectionality of the experience of migration and psychosis.
She is currently developing her project Promised Land, to be performed as part of Bloomsbury Festival 2022 and writing her new piece Prayers for a Hungry Ghost. She has worked as an actor, performer and deviser with Ad Infinitum, Flabbergast Theatre, and the David Glass Ensemble. On film, she has been featured in Eelyn Lee’s films Casting Fu Manchu (2020) and San Xing (2021). For her performance, she also won Best Performer in a Play in The Stage Debut Awards 2022. With Created a Monster, she wrote and performed Unforgettable Girl, which won the OFFFest award at VOILA! Festival. Myths are powerful in their potential to reframe the “ever-changing mask” we fit over the unknowable aspects of our reality. She explores how marginalized identities and stories can struggle for their dignity and existence by creating their own myths, thus denying the existing sacred and hegemonic fixed point.
She is interested in blasphemy: the revelation of a sacred time and space-a sliver of myth-through a profane subject. Her work explores the naked encounter between performer and audience: using stories, human bodies and art to simultaneously trap the audience in the moment of presence and into their imagination. Based internationally across Europe and Asia, she is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning theatremaker and actor. & The International School of the Hard Knocks™Įlisabeth Gunawan 吳金栵 is a Chinese-Indonesian artist who works in the mode of stories, poetry and performance.
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