‘I approach dance with a musician’s sensibility,’ says vocalist, composer and movement artist Elaine Mitchener, whose work appears in ‘British Art Show 9’, a major group exhibition that takes the temperature of contemporary art every five years (touring nationally until 23 Dec 2022).
“Classically trained with a three-octave range, the genre-exploding performer dissolves her voice into astonishing gasps and stutters to confront the horror of colonial history.”
Elaine Mitchener discusses radical approaches to creating and interpreting musical scores in a talk at Somerset House
Elaine is guest artist for this concert presenting works by Luciano Berio, Julius Eastman and Alvin Lucier
“My thoughts for Art Review on British Art Show 9 – currently at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester & Plymouth. Highlights: Kathrin Böhm, Elaine Mitchener, Abigail Reynolds & Hrair Sarkissian.”
“Equally powerful and evocative is Elaine Mitchener‘s sound installation [NAMES II] (2019-2021), memorialising some of the 2,000 enslaved African people owned by an Aberdeenshire sugar planter in Jamaica.”
“Elaine Mitchener’s poignant (NAMES II) is a roll-call of the 2,000 enslaved African people owned by an 18th century Jamaican sugar planter, whose family came from Aberdeenshire.”
Elaine presents the UK premiere of the then + the now = now time on 2nd September 2021 at Wigmore Hall
Hayward Gallery Touring’s landmark exhibition,the British Art Show, will open its ninth edition in Scotland at Aberdeen Art Gallery on July 10, 2021.
