Nicholas Mortimer
Staff details
Nicholas Mortimer is a member of Post Workers Theatre, an artist collective formed in 2018 with Dash Macdonald and Demitrios Kargotis. PWT study and update historic workers’ theatre and creative resistance to address inequalities in the contemporary labour market and wider society. Through collective writing, performing, costume and stage production, the collective sets up opportunities for workers and communities to discuss and challenge their conditions and imagine them otherwise.
Alongside working and researching with Postworkers theatre, Nicholas maintains a multi media creative practice, exhibiting and performing widely using scenography, radio, theatre and sound design to explore the construction of narratives surrounding the social, cultural and political effects of technological progress.
Academic qualifications
- MA Design Interactions, Royal College of Art 2013
- BA fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton 2005
Publications and research outputs
Design
Mortimer, N; Popper, J; Pestana, M and Barhad, K. 2016. This Time Tomorrow.
Show/Exhibition
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. Protesteroo. In: "Protesteroo", Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, March - May 2019.
Conference or Workshop Item
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2019. 'Autohoodening'. In: Autohoodening. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom May - December 2019.
Performance
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2021. Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing. In: "Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing", Lulea Arts and Crafts International Bienalle, Sweden, October 2022 - January 2023.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2021. The Ballad of Goodwill. In: "The Ballad of Goodwill", Faculty of Fine, Applied & Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, January - April 2021.
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2018. Tomorrow's Great Pageant. In: "Tomorrows Great Pageant", The Place Theatre Bedford, United Kingdom, October 2017 - January 2018.
Mortimer, N. 2015. Cybersyn Fictions: Collected Performative Works. In: "Community in Progress", Critical Media Lab Basel, Switzerland, 2015.
Project
Mortimer, Nicholas; Macdonald, Dash and Kargotis, Demitrios. 2018 - Present Post Workers Theatre.
Mortimer, Nicholas and Popper, Joseph. 2014-2018 The Joy of Sets.
