{"id":1504,"date":"2024-08-13T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/?page_id=1504"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:51:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T17:51:54","slug":"leo-mercer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/masterclasses\/leo-mercer\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Mercer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1504\" class=\"elementor elementor-1504\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f8ec00 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5f8ec00\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2df72ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2df72ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Leo Mercer<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13716a2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"13716a2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6709060 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6709060\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"896\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/files\/2024\/08\/leo-e1723557018575.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-1506\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/files\/2024\/08\/leo-e1723557018575.jpg 896w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/files\/2024\/08\/leo-e1723557018575-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/files\/2024\/08\/leo-e1723557018575-850x1024.jpg 850w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/files\/2024\/08\/leo-e1723557018575-768x926.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4581ca5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4581ca5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a59dadf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a59dadf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Leo Mercer is\u00a0a multi-disciplinary artist, working across theatre, music and creative technology. With his company leo&amp;hyde,\u00a0he creates music theatre, outdoor projections, VR experiences and sound installations, with a leaning to themes of pop culture (<i>The Marriage of Kim\u00a0<\/i>K;\u00a0<i>Pop Art<\/i>), modern love (<i>GUY; Double Life VR<\/i>) and life with modern technology (<i>The VR Diary of Attica <\/i><i>Lehane<\/i><i>; The Coffee Shop Musical<\/i>).<\/p><p>Leo studied at the University of Manchester and University of Oxford. Since then, his work has been performed nationwide, including commissions from the National Theatre and The Lowry.\u00a0Outside of musical theatre, he works as a freelancer in VR. 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Through an open process, we invited artists to submit projects exploring different aspects of Lancaster Arts\u2019 annual theme for 2024, Flight.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/art-beats-festival-24\/flight\/flight-as-it-feels-leo-mercer\/\" class=\"elementor-button elementor-slide-button elementor-size-sm\">Click Here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/*! elementor &#8211; v3.23.0 &#8211; 05-08-2024 *\/ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]&gt;a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px} Leo Mercer \/*! elementor &#8211; v3.23.0 &#8211; 05-08-2024 *\/ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=&#8221;.svg&#8221;]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} Leo Mercer is\u00a0a multi-disciplinary artist, working across theatre, music and creative technology. 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