The Lab Collective

Corpus Quod is a new research and performance project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.  The company is a collaboration between artists and academics to explore how immersive technologies and performance can increase empathy and impact public opinion of refugees and asylum seekers. 

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After a year long development process and interdisciplinary engagement, new performance, Burden of Proof premiered at Theatre Delicatessen and the University of Birmingham.

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Burden of Proof places it's audience in the centre of of Ziad's story as he undergoes the asylum seeking process; using the research conducted and a hybrid of verbatim and fictionalised narrative, the audience interact with a system designed to discourage, penalise and misrepresent refugees seeking asylum. 

For more in depth information on the project - you can visit the University of Birmingham's website here