[NAMES]
Elaine Mitchener (UK)
Wed 26 Oct 2016
Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Photo by Fabuo Lugaro
WORLD PREMIERE
The durational piece [NAMES] is a chapter taken from Sweet Tooth, an anthology of music/movement-art work.
In this representation of the work Mitchener focuses on the names enslaved Africans were forced to take. By removing their birth names this was a deliberately cruel and decisive effort to rob them of their identity and humanity.
Taking a contemporary viewpoint on this period, [NAMES] tests and explores ways of confronting and feeling a past that continues to groan and shift restlessly in our present.
A vocalist working in the area of movement art and noted for her unique melding of styles ranging from contemporary classical, gospel, jazz, sound poetry, free-improvisation and movement, Elaine Mitchener has worked with a range of leading musicians and artists in this area.
- Presented by SPILL Festival of Performance, in partnership with Aldeburgh Music
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