Brora Y Station: a performance paper

ABSTRACT: Drawing on my doctoral research, this experimental essay is set on Scotland’s Northern coast at Brora Y Station, a government radio station, established in order to listen to the coded chatter across North Sea during WWII and the Cold War. The performance paper weaves together the historical mechanics of intelligence gathering and translating information into word (code comprised of impulses and the absence of impulses) and apophatic theology along with the lives of the villagers meeting in the Fisherman's Hall to pray, into a polyphonic enquiry of the ways we listen to and ‘word’ God and Other.

Rebecca Mackenzie is a writer and performer based in Glasgow where she is undertaking a PhD in Theology through Creative Practice. Her novel IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and was an Observer Book of the Year. Her most recent performance COLLIDER took her to  Large Hadron Collider at CERN where she collaborated with a physicists exploring the first moments after the Big Bang before matter set.
www.rebeccamackenzie.com