19 February 2022
Howard Assembly Room - Leeds 17:00 Staging Eastman Ft Elaine Mitchener and Anton Lukoszevieze With ensemble from the University of Leeds Benjamin Patterson Duo for Voice and String Instrument Julius Eastman JoyBoy Julius Eastman
Howard Assembly Room - Leeds 17:00 Staging Eastman Ft Elaine Mitchener and Anton Lukoszevieze With ensemble from the University of Leeds Benjamin Patterson Duo for Voice and String Instrument Julius Eastman JoyBoy Julius Eastman
Théâtre Antoine Vitez, Scène d'Ivry - France, 19:00 'Triptychus' - New commission by Sons d'Hiver Elaine Mitchener, composer/ concept/vocalistPat Thomas, composer/ pianistReece Ewing, film / fx The evening will be shared with: Joëlle
Elaine Mitchener is awarded a Fellowship of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2022.
‘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 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.”