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Gob Squad is a group of UK and German artists, based in Nottingham and Berlin. Working collectively since 1994, the group makes and presents its work in urban sites such as offices, houses, shops, railway stations and hotels as well as in galleries and theatres. Using the language of film, TV and pop music to explore the complexities and absurdities of life today, Gob Squad's work is a search for beauty, meaning and humanity amongst the glittering facades and dark corners of contemporary culture. Sometimes improvised, sometimes strictly choreographed, the work is always provocative, entertaining and emotionally charged. Where do we really feel safe? Often it is in the places that we are most familiar with; our homes, cars and shopping centres. This is a strange dichotomy as we also know these can be the places that we are most at risk: not in dark alleyways but in the very places we seek refuge, when those who would do us harm are not strangers, but our family and friends. Gob Squad apply their characteristic desire to put romantic beauty into the mundane by inserting home-made magic and spectacle into everyday life. This performance is part of a series of research residencies in the UK looking at fear and its cultural manifestations. Gob Squad - Me, The Monster website.