Take It Outside Sharing
Take It Outside Sharing
Sat 2 - Sun 3 Aug 2025
on Greenham Common
Meeting at the Control Tower
Two days of work-in-progress shows at Greenham Common
The Work
With support from Jerwood Foundation, five artists have worked with 101 Outdoor Arts to extend their practice in the outdoors. We celebrated the culmination of the Take It Outside programme with a sharing of the artists' innovative responses to the site at Greenham Common.
Take It Outside was an artist development programme for Arts in Public Space hosted by 101 and supported by Jerwood Arts Developing Artists scheme.
The Line Up
Sat 2 Aug
Becky Lyon – Common/s Objects
Common/s Objects is an invitation from artist Becky Lyon inviting common folk to generate insights about common places using common household objects. In place of technical apparatus and expertise, data and insights emerge from the senses, intuition and imagination using whatever-to-hand!
You are invited to pick up a kit of common objects and see what you can learn and unearth from your surrounding environment…. There are two booking slots available and you can spend as little as 5 mins or up to 45 mins on the activity.
Common/s Objects draws on Becky’s research into the role of lived experience and commoner-centred knowledge-making in democratising how we make knowledge about nature, who’s allowed to access it and steward it. What counts as a tool? How can exploratory inquiry supplement scientific knowledge? How can commoner knowledge offer valuable and overlooked insights in the climate and nature crisis?
Location: Control Tower
Sun 3 Aug
Jamaal O'Driscoll – Something Outta Nothing
Something Outta Nothing (SON) is a site-specific dance-theatre work, which combines Breakin’ with an innovative audio technique and a narrative created in conversation with local communities. A 30-minute professional show, seeking to diversify perspectives of the spaces and the communities who share them through the use of silent disco headphones.
Location: Runway Cross
Sun 3 Aug
Philip Ewe – Picnic
Picnic congregates audience to witness a solo performance in memory of the Greenham Common Women’s Camp and its years long protest against nuclear weapons. Inspired by the 1983 action at the Greenham Common AirBase where 200 women dressed as teddy bears and invaded the base to stage a ‘picnic’, artist Philip Ewe catalyses a spectacle of changes in tone, chemistry and character in the no mans land of Greenham Common’s landing strip. From peace to mayhem, static to explosive, dormant to ignited, domesticated to subversive Picnic reminds us of the political impact of ‘making a spectacle of oneself’ and spectacle making as an act of Protest.
Location: Runway Cross
Sun 3 Aug
Daisy Fairclough – Apophenia
The unpredictable wanderer from the depths of an unknown timeline, the chaos clown of the sweetest parts of the shadow, the futuristic sentient healer, Transcendental Ribbon, has found herself in your spatial timeline, and she wishes to share with you the power of you! Unlearning Mastery is a 30 minute trip into the weird wild and wonderful of all things, Transcendental Ribbon is here to share with you the unavoidable fate of humanity, but the freedom and liberation that lives within it, she invites you to dance in the mud and dine in the chaos! With clowning and music, it's a sweet world in the inbetween.
Starts at Control Tower
Sun 3 Aug
Pei-Chi Lee – Everything Should Remain Possible
A site-specific installation and performance at Greenham Common Control Tower. Set in a place once built for control, and later reclaimed through protest, this work explores how presence becomes political, how watching, waiting, or acting all carry consequence. Suspended abstract forms shift in response to movement, wind, and attention. As ropes are pulled and released, the space begins to rearrange. Nothing stays fixed. No version repeats. At its centre is a quiet game between two performers: one in the tower, one on the field. One sends a signal: a shift, a pause, a release. The other responds, or doesn’t. The rules are soft. The structure is improvised. The audience plays a part too. Sometimes by moving through the field, sometimes by interacting with the work, sometimes just by watching long enough to change something. Every presence becomes part of the system. Even stillness has impact. This is a work about resistance, attention, and reimagining. And everything should remain possible.
Location: Control Tower
