{"id":25472,"date":"2026-10-16T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/from-a-vr-gay-sauna-to-the-gothic-pile-that-inspired-cluedo-fierce-festival-storms-back\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:37:49","slug":"from-a-vr-gay-sauna-to-the-gothic-pile-that-inspired-cluedo-fierce-festival-storms-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/from-a-vr-gay-sauna-to-the-gothic-pile-that-inspired-cluedo-fierce-festival-storms-back\/","title":{"rendered":"From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo \u2013 Fierce festival storms back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venues across Birmingham<\/strong>
As Britain\u2019s longest-running live art festival returns, get ready for late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool and Faye Driscoll\u2019s incredible rotating disintegration<\/p>\n

The phrase \u201ctwo things can be true\u201d is a frequent refrain in popular psychology and it\u2019s also a frequent response, I find, to witnessing the farther reaches of live art. Hmm, is this performance confusingly self-indulgent or utterly profound? Sometimes it can be both. In fact, it\u2019s not just two things that can be true, it\u2019s as many things as there are people in the audience, since this is all about the live subjective experience, in the moment; presence and connection.<\/p>\n

Launched in 1998, Fierce is Britain\u2019s longest-running live art festival. For one week it takes over Birmingham\u2019s conventional theatres alongside unconventional spaces, especially in ex-industrial Digbeth, which is fast becoming a creative hub. Also on the bill this year: late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool, and a six-hour performance jam at a grand gothic hall that was apparently the inspiration for Cluedo.<\/p>\n

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\nVenues across BirminghamAs Britain\u2019s longest-running live art festival returns, get ready for late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool and Faye Driscoll\u2019s incredible rotating disintegration
\nThe phrase \u201ctwo things can be true\u201d is a frequent refrain in popular psychology and it\u2019s also a frequent response, I find, to witnessing the farther reaches of live art. Hmm, is this performance confusingly self-indulgent or utterly profound? Sometimes it can be both. In fact, it\u2019s not just two things that can be true, it\u2019s as many things as there are people in the audience, since this is all about the live subjective experience, in the moment; presence and connection.
\nLaunched in 1998, Fierce is Britain\u2019s longest-running live art festival. For one week it takes over Birmingham\u2019s conventional theatres alongside unconventional spaces, especially in ex-industrial Digbeth, which is fast becoming a creative hub. Also on the bill this year: late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool, and a six-hour performance jam at a grand gothic hall that was apparently the inspiration for Cluedo. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Venues across BirminghamAs Britain\u2019s longest-running live art festival returns, get ready for late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool and Faye Driscoll\u2019s incredible rotating disintegration The phrase \u201ctwo things can be true\u201d is a frequent refrain in popular psychology and it\u2019s also a frequent response, I find, to witnessing the farther reaches of …<\/p>\n

From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo \u2013 Fierce festival storms back<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}