Time & Place: Site-Specific Training
Time & Place: Site-Specific Training with Geraldine Pilgrim
DAiSY’s collaboration with Geraldine Pilgrim and West Horsley Place for a Site-Specific Arts Project.
DAiSY is thrilled to unveil a new collaboration with internationally renowned artist and theatre practitioner Geraldine Pilgrim, alongside the historic venue West Horsley Place, for an exciting new initiative: Time & Place: Site-Specific Training.
About the project
This innovative project will offer site-specific design training to DAiSY’s member organisations and the disabled artists they support. Through a practical series of workshops, participants will develop skills in site-responsive art-making, culminating in a photography exhibition at DAISY-Fest 2025, held at G Live, Guildford, documenting the work created.
Workshops will take place across DAiSY member venues including Freewheelers, Head2Head Sensory Theatre, and The Meath Epilepsy Charity, as well as on-site at West Horsley Place. Participants will delve into the rich heritage of West Horsley Place, exploring its stories and spaces through the lens of site-specific performance design. These workshops will result in a collection of striking, thought-provoking performance installations, captured in a stunning photographic showcase.
This ambitious project not only champions inclusive creative practice but also provides real-world training in the creation of site-specific art. It is a celebration of place, history, and the artists to reimagine spaces in compelling new ways.
DAISY-Fest 2025 promises to be a landmark moment in Surrey’s cultural calendar — and the exhibition of photographs from this project is set to be one of its many highlights.
The Meath Epilepsy Charity
Head 2 Head Sensory Theatre
West Horsley Place
West Horsley Place is a Grade I listed medieval manor house and estate, dating back to 1425, with roots that stretch to Saxon times. The West Horsley Place Trust, a heritage charity, is dedicated to restoring the house, gardens, and its 380-acre estate.
Their mission is twofold: to preserve and care for these remarkable buildings and landscapes, and to use them as a platform for arts, culture, and education. Through a variety of learning programmes and events, they aim to engage both local and wider communities, enhancing wellbeing and fostering creativity.
Geraldine Pilgrim
Geraldine Pilgrim director/designer/Installation artist and educator, works across theatre and the visual arts and is known for her evocative participatory site-specific performances and installations, which create a contemporary dialogue with occupied and empty buildings, landscapes, and historic houses.
She is Artistic Director of Geraldine Pilgrim Performance Company that creates socially engaged participatory site-specific and theatre performances working in collaboration with young people, older people and arts and community groups supported by a professional creative team.
Her particular site-specific work specialises in performances and installations in unusual buildings and landscapes where the architecture of the site is used as inspiration and narrative, gradually revealing memories and atmospheres that have built up over the years, together with the history – imagined and real – of the space
www.geraldinepilgrim.com
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