The Perfect Human (and the things we do): A performance research project considering how a performance event can be sustained through individual acts of genuinely daily behaviour. The project is constituted as a series of context specific performance and installation works, each performed with 20-30 self-selecting participants from the locale, and taking its initial dramaturgical structure from the script of Jorgen Leth’s 1967 film 'the perfect human'.

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Performed in Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland; since its initial presentation 4th July 2009. A performance research project, initially developed within a commission by Inteatro (Polverigi, Italy) during a two year period as associate artist to the company. Subsequent versions of the resulting performance work having been commissioned and produced by BAD (Bilbao, Spain), CAOS (Terni, Italy), HAU (Berlin, Germany), and Teatro Sociale (Bellinzona, Switzerland). The project being realised within the context of Brookes’ ongoing artistic collaboration with Spanish artist and performer Rosa Casado.