Uncomfortable Interactions

Everyday life (especially everyday urban life) has long been understood as characterized by ongoing negotiations around tensions between loneliness and togetherness, alienation and proximity, and of the desire for avoidance of others and/versus possibilities for interactions with others. Exploration of these issues has long been a concern of renowned experimental British arts group, Blast Theory. This chapter, an interview with one of the founding members of Blast Theory, Matt Adams, explores how the group came to be interested in these concerns, and how they are taken up within specific projects.