Absent Tense
Absent Tense is an audio essay and accompanying publication and film which reflects the presence of absence in our lives during the first UK Covid lockdown in 2020. Inspired by the first 12 weeks of lockdown and experienced in 12 parts, it is an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, loss, breath and time passing.
Content Warning: Grief, Racism, Ableism.
Accessibility
Absent Tense is available in various accessible formats; a film, an audio essay and a print publication.
Audio Essay
An audio only version of Absent Tense is available here
Publication
A print publication version of Absent Tense is available here
Film
A film version of Absent Tense with integrated Closed Captions is available here
Credits
Conceived, Written and Performed by Jo Bannon
Sound Recording and Mixing by John Stephenson
Composition by Jules Maxwell
Illustration and Design by Adam York Gregory
Commissioned by Candoco Dance Company and HOME for their Homemakers programme. Homemakers is a series of new commissions, inviting our favourite theatre and live art makers to create work at home, for an audience who are also at home.