Nic Green
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Nic Green is a performance maker and activist, brought up in Yorkshire, but based in Glasgow. Her work is based on the environment, social responsibility and relationships.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/artists/nic-green|title=Nic Green|last=London|first=Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street|website=Artsadmin|language=en|access-date=2019-05-16}} She is well known for her use of nudity on stage, for example Trilogy (2009–2010),{{Cite journal|last=Gorman|first=Sarah|date=2013|title=feminist disavowal or return to immanence? the problem of poststructuralism and the naked female form in Nic Green's Trilogy and Ursula Martinez' My Stories, Your Emails|journal=Feminist Review|volume=105|issue=1|pages=48–64|doi=10.1057/fr.2013.19|issn=0141-7789}} which is a two-hour show in three parts. It is a feminist, political statement on the body where she, three other women and a man are naked for the duration of it as well as asking members of the audience to take their clothes off too.
Life
Nic Green graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Performance Practises.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcs.ac.uk/alumni/nic-green/|title=Nic Green|website=Royal Conservatoire of Scotland|access-date=2019-05-16}}
She often focusses her work within communities and public arts with her areas of influence and research being varied and cross many disciplines from Systems Thinking to Jungian Synchronicity.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/artists/nic-green|title=Nic Green|last=London|first=Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street|website=Artsadmin|language=en|access-date=2019-05-16}} Her past projects have been about spaces, about radical and engaged and making the political more accessible. For example, she led a project in collaboration with Artsadmin titled 'Make Space' in 2013 and was four-week project challenging ideas on how people see and experience the space around us.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/artist-development/for-under-25s/make-space-summer-project-2013|title=Make Space: Summer Project 2013|last=London|first=Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street|website=Artsadmin|language=en|access-date=2019-05-16}}
She was the recipient of the inaugural Forced Entertainment Award, in memory of Huw Chadbourn for 2018{{Cite web|url=https://www.forcedentertainment.com/participation/forced-entertainment-award-in-memory-of-huw-chadbourn/|title=Forced Entertainment|website=www.forcedentertainment.com|access-date=2019-05-16}} and was also the 2018 Artist in Residence at National Theatre Scotland.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/introducing-our-associates/|title=Introducing our Associates|website=National Theatre Scotland|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-16}}
Works
Some of her earlier works include:
- Saccades (2005) {{Cite web|url=http://www.bacarchive.org.uk/exhibits/show/thegreat-thegood/nic-green|title=Nic Green - Battersea Arts Centre Digital Archive|website=www.bacarchive.org.uk|access-date=2019-05-16}}
- Trilogy (2010) {{Cite journal|last=Roms|first=Heike|date=2014-07-03|title=Histories and Practices of Live Art edited by Deirdre Heddon and Jennie Klein|journal=Contemporary Theatre Review|volume=24|issue=3|pages=397–399|doi=10.1080/10486801.2014.921019|issn=1048-6801}}
- Slowlo (2012) {{Cite web|url=https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/events/3150|title=Nic Green: Slowlo|last=London|first=Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street|website=Artsadmin|language=en|access-date=2019-05-16}}
- Fatherland (2013) {{Cite web|url=http://www.bacarchive.org.uk/exhibits/show/thegreat-thegood/nic-green|title=Nic Green - Battersea Arts Centre Digital Archive|website=www.bacarchive.org.uk|access-date=2019-05-16}}
- Shadowlands (2013) {{Cite web|url=https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/production/shadowlands/|title=Shadowlands|website=National Theatre Scotland|language=en-US|access-date=2019-05-16}}
- Cock and Bull (2017) {{Cite web|url=https://www.inbetweentime.co.uk/whats-on/cock-and-bull/|title=Cock and Bull performed by Nic Green {{!}} IBT17 Bristol International Festival|website=In Between Time|language=en|access-date=2019-05-16}}