Seth Pimlott

My work involves developing narratives with different groups – musicians, actors, and children, for example – exploring marginal identities and ideas around altered states of consciousness. Often devising my own workshops and leading projects through a kind of imaginative play, I think this kind of ‘creative non-fiction’ allows the individuals and groups I work with to open up about themselves and their experiences in ways they perhaps might not normally. This might be in the form of science fiction when working with autistic children in the Wellcome Trust backed film Reality and Technology Enterprises (2015), but also through gesture and dance with Japanese Noh actors in a film made in Kyoto last year exploring representations of dreaming in Japanese theatre (Kyoto University of The Arts exchange 2015–16).