This report documents a three-day artistic residency undertaken at the Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre (BOARC) in Bidston, Liverpool. Between 12 and 14 January 2024, members of the CXP and guest artist-researcher Dr Ilona Krawczyk gathered to undertake theatre laboratory and other training activities. The focus of our explorations were the research questions and positions […]
Bordering a documentary and a video essay, this output relates to an interdisciplinary laboratory led by members of the Centre for Experimental Practices (CXP) at the University of Huddersfield at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield on November 27 and 28, 2023. This was the first of the two training phases I have undertaken within […]
It was a long sunny and icy afternoon in Dublin. Our film-maker Rory took me to Dublin, where we spent 8 hours shooting outdoor for our short-film Neither (I nor Not I) based on Neither by Feldman and Beckett. Getting the light right and time-lapsing was Rory’s main goal. Here are few stills from our […]
Neither (I nor Not I), our short-film based on the one-woman opera Neither by Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett, is the second output of my IRC funded project ‘En-Gendering Monodrama’. Our production was awarded funding from the Short-Grass short-film award of the Kildare County Council. The film showcases our original adaptation of the score, realized […]
Thrilled to announce we made it into the line-up of Dublin Music Festival Music Town 2017! Our application went through a revision and competition process against a number of exciting music projects and events encompassing musical styles and genres. And… we made it! A fully staged production of Francis Poulenc’s one-performer opera La Voix humaine comes to […]
Just as I set back from the ‘Posthumanist and Vocality‘ seminar at the ACLA conference, I found a very generous review of Cathy Berberian Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality in the latest special issue on voice of Twentieth-Century Music. I am particularly pleased to see that the author of the review is distinguished artist and musicologist Nina […]