assessment

About Assessment

A face-to-face performative consultation inspired by the PIP assessment process, placing audiences inside the experience of being assessed. Assessment turns the tables on who gets assessed – and who gets to do the assessing.

Would you take our Assessment?

A face-to-face experience. A series of questions. A tick-box exercise where your answers are measured and assessed – but without the real-world consequences.

Assessment TRAILER

Assessment in your space

Assessment can be presented as a performance or used as a performative consultation, offering venues and partners a way to create the space for audiences and communities to share their experiences and perspectives.

Multiple Assessments can take place simultaneously, allowing the work to respond to different spaces, audience numbers and contexts.

In Your Space	At a Glance
Place audiences in the process – participants experience the questions, choices and judgements of an assessment face-to-face	Participatory · Face-to-face
Capture different perspectives – use performance as a creative way to gather responses from audiences and communities	Performative consultation
Multiply the experience – several Assessments can take place simultaneously, allowing the work to spread across a space	Scalable performance
Spark conversation – assessment, judgement, independence, entitlement and control	Performance + discussion/workshop potential

Further possibilities

Assessment can become part of a wider consultation or engagement process, creating opportunities for the responses gathered through the performance to inform what happens next.

The work can also connect to the development of Assessment II, an audience-centred theatre project currently in development. Venues presenting Assessment could become part of that next stage, connecting the experiences and perspectives surfaced through the work with further research and development.

Explore Assessment II

Previously Presented at: Manchester Art Gallery, The Whitworth, and DaDa Fest International at Tate Liverpool.

Content & sensory information: Assessment is a participatory face-to-face performance inspired by the PIP assessment process. Participants take part in a structured interview with performers. The work deals with disability, assessment, judgement, independence and access to support. Participation is voluntary.