Dynamic Pricing
ARC’s policy is to set ticket prices based on demand, like budget airlines, which means we set a price when the event goes on sale and then sometimes put the price up or down depending on how the show is selling. Usually, the price will increase as we get closer to the event, so it is advantageous to book in advance, although sometimes we will put special offers on and reduce the price. Our website will always show the current ticket price.
ARC’s theatre and dance performances are priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, which means you don’t have to pay until after you have seen a show!
We want to encourage more people to come and see shows at ARC, more often. Pay What You Decide not only allows you to pay what you can afford, rather than a fixed ticket price, but also removes the financial risk of buying a ticket for a show in advance without knowing whether you are going to enjoy it or not.
Tickets are available to book in advance as usual, but there is no obligation for you to pay until after you have seen the show. You can then decide on a price which you think is suitable based on your experience, which means if you haven’t enjoyed it at all, you don’t have to pay anything.
All money collected will help ARC pay the artists who have performed, and we therefore hope you will give generously.
Please ensure you have arrived and collected your tickets 15 minutes before the show starts in order to secure your seats. At the end of the show, you can decide what to pay, either by cash on the door or by card at the Box Office.
Change is reciprocal. You can’t change something without it changing you too.
How has work impacted your body? How has it changed your functionality?
Gillian stands on one end of a balanced plank and on the other end is a large block of concrete. She walks along the plank to the concrete and chips away at the concrete with a chisel, occasionally returning to the other side to check their relative weights until the see-saw balances perfectly. The concrete becomes a sculptural equivalent of Gillian. A likeness in mass.
A self portrait, baring all the scars of the work that made it.
Adam & Gillian have designed a modernist, durational performance that results in a sculptural installation.
The work speaks to their established practice of durational performance installation, but is also a personal reflection upon the performer’s relationship with their body. Gillian has osteonecrosis, a degenerative condition that limits her movement. They struggle to speak about this and how it relates to their practice and have decided that the best way to communicate it is through their work together. Using the performance as a focal point to involve audiences and other artists in a discussion around how we see ourselves and how that influences what we make and do.
We invite people to use this performance as a focal point for discussions and reflections around their own body, how work has shaped it, and how they view it.
‘Potent, unsettling and discomforting, about success and failure, endurance and breakdown.’ – Lynn Gardner, The Guardian.
BALANCE has been supported by IOU Creation Centre, Lancaster Arts, The Peter Scott Gallery, MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, through the Turner on Tees programme for Turner Prize 2026. Funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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About The Event
Time: 2pm until 8pm
Duration: 6 Hours
This event is free and requires no booking. You are able to watch this performance art for a long as you like and there are no restrictions of when you can leave.
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About The Artists
Gillian is a Glasgow based performance practitioner. She makes rigorous attempts to build and control her environment over hours, and sometimes days, by undertaking physically demanding and mentally exhausting durational performances. Gillian’s interest lies in the fleeting moment where her will to succeed meets her diminishing physical ability to complete each task.
Adam is a visual artist, writer and film-maker. He’s particularly interested in the connections between seemingly disparate subjects and how meaning can be found through exploration.
Together, they make a form of durational sculpture and their practice seeks to explore the notion of ‘the imagined ideal’ through subjective performance, objective experimentation, documentation and observation.
Frequently, their work is concerned with materiality, repetition and failure.
