'After The Dust...' (60 minutes, 2022)
An immersive multi-channel sound and moving image installation
Collaborators: Anna Walker, Ben Park, Jo Milne, Fin Walker, Davina Kirkpatrick, and Katerina Athanasopoulou.
With supporting material from Iris Garrelfs, Stacey Blythe, Joad Raymond, Heleni Achilleos, and Dolores Steinman.
Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rl6JWi6ffiPmvSH_m4sAa7eSwz2PheveklQUOs8S6nA/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.death-n-stuff.com
With supporting material from Iris Garrelfs, Stacey Blythe, Joad Raymond, Heleni Achilleos, and Dolores Steinman.
Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rl6JWi6ffiPmvSH_m4sAa7eSwz2PheveklQUOs8S6nA/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.death-n-stuff.com
Background
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Everyday for a Year, Video Installation, 2017. 186 porcelain envelopes act as monitors, still points, memorial markers for the film She wanders/wonders that animates the surface, creating meditative ritual space of repetition and immersion.
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Residency 2019 - Making at Maker Heights: Fabric, Fluidity, and Performance Art. An exploration of serious play, collaboration, rituals of loss and approaches to working with textile, body, and landscape in performance art.
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‘Battle’, ‘Wyrd sisters’ & ’Banquet’ - research projects that took place at the National Theatre Studio over a 3 year period, thanks to the support of Nick Hytner.
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Dying Breath, video, 2022. A work in progress by Jo Milne in collaboration with Shima, her dog. |
In-Between/ Entre-mig 2022. A work in progress by Jo Milne in collaboration with Sarah Bild, as part of Match-Making, ARE https://are-research.com/archive/match-making-2/ |
Bios:
Anna Walker, PhD is an artist, writer, and storyteller working across performance and mixed media. For many years, she has been using moving images and sound to explore how the body responds to overwhelming traumatic and stressful situations and its resilience. She was awarded an MA in Fine Art from Southampton University in 1998, and a certificate in Psychotherapy from CBPC, Cambridge, in 2010. An interest in the effects of trauma on the body, developed during her work as a relational psychotherapist, led to a PhD in Arts and Media at Plymouth University, which she completed in May 2017. Her arts-practice as research investigates memory, identity, displacement and migration. Most recent exhibitions include: Video: “We Are The Granddaughters of Those Who Didn’t Die” 2021-2022, performance and video, February 2, 2022 Goddess Lounge and “After Progress Online Exhibition, February 2022.” Video: “Indra’s Horse.” a tale from the Mahabharata 2021, in collaboration with Ojapali performer: Nayanjyoti Nath for @folklog + @brtitishcouncil. Videos:“Red is the Colour of Pomegranate”: 4 videos, 1.9.20 - 31.12.20. Performance and video: “Macha's Body in Pain” 2020.
https://www.anna-walker-research.com/
https://www.anna-walker-research.com/
Ben Park is a composer, producer, performer and educator. He recently won the Tate Modern ORA singers choral commission to be premiered later this year. His musical experience and interests are extensive having studied both classical and jazz music. He has written, produced and performed extensively for film, television, dance and theatre: notably the internationally acclaimed 70-Hill-Lane with Improbable Theatre-and the triple BAFTA winning Oscar Nominated S4C production of The Canterbury Tales. His most recent works include: Unspoken Spoken, directed by Fin Walker, winner of 20 film festival Laurels & Best Dance Film, DanceUK; Downhill the movie; WHY, by aerial group Gravity & Levity, now touring internationally; and Sancho An Act of Remembrance for Paterson Joseph, which has been touring UK and USA for the past 2 years. Another Time, created in 2019 was commissioned by the Oslo international festival, and performed citywide in Oct 2019. He has released over 82 tracks on Spotify in association with State 51 Conspiracy, and was a founder member of a funk band [TheNeighbourhood] & the saxophone quartet STAB, and joint artistic director of Walker Dance Park Music at the Royal Opera House. http://parkmusic.me
Davina Kirkpatrick, PhD: is an Artist, Lecturer in Medical Humanities and Visiting Research Fellow in Humanities and Performing Arts at the University of Plymouth. Her background is in site-specific public art, socially engaged practice, and collaborative inter-disciplinary projects that have involved national and international exhibitions, residencies and commissions. In 2009 she completed a MA in Multidisciplinary Print, which led to a PhD focused on grief, loss and living with the presence of absence. Her work responds to the need to find equivalent intensities to the intensity of loss. I am passionate about the spaces art and creativity can open that allow different, often intimate conversations to happen. Her post-doctoral Creative Economy Engagement Fellowship - Immersive Environments and Serious Play: New Initiatives for Patient Practitioner Interaction, explored pain and creativity. https://www.davinak.co.uk
Fin Walker is an award winning choreographer/director with training in body psychotherapy, somatic practices, energy work and coaching techniques. As a choreographer & movement director she has worked at The National Theatre, The Royal Shake-speare Company, The Globe, West End, Broadway, The Royal Opera House, the Barbican, Outsider Production Company and the BBC. Most recently Fin worked with Ralph Fiennes on his 1 man show, which toured regionally and had a West End run. Fin was Co-Artistic Director of contemporary dance & music company; Walker Dance Park Music: As-sociate Company at the The Royal Opera House for 6 years. Choreographic commissions include: Ballet Rambert, Candoco Dance Co, Ricochet Dance productions, Gravity & Levity. Sadlers Wells, National Theatre Studio, The Barbican, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The Linbury Trust & Arts Council of England, have all supported Fin’s ongoing research on Macbeth. https://www.finwalker.co.uk
Jo Milne, PhD, is an award winning visual artist who works between Scotland and Spain. Her research focusses on the methodologies used by scientists, artists and visionaries to visualise the invisible. Her work has received awards from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Canada), the RSA (Scotland), Arena Foundation, AENA, Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain) and she has undertaken residencies at the Museu d’Art de Sabadell, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the IRB Barcelona. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, with solo shows at Fundaci Vila Casas (Barcelona), Museu d’Art de Sant Pol (Sant Pol), La Sala (Vilanova), Can Many (Alella) and others at Talbot Rice Art Centre (Edinburgh), Widener Gallery (Hartford, USA), Espace Arlaud and Forum (Switzerland). www.jomilne.com
Katerina Athanasopoulou studied Fine Art at Aristotle University in Greece, and Animation at the Royal College of Art in England. Her films have been shown internationally at film festivals and galleries, including Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Thessaloniki Biennale 3, Holland Animation Film Festival, European Media Art Festival, Arebyte Gallery, London, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Katerina is in the final year of a 3D3 doctoral studentship at the University of Plymouth, researching the intersections of VR, Animation and Performance through a lens of corporeal kinaesthetics. https://www.kineticat.co.uk/About