“Mitchener’s passions are deeply personal but also resonate with a broader community of artists, curators, writers and researchers who, through sonic and listening strategies, grapple with the question of what it means to pay attention in a world where this capacity is increasingly under threat.”
on third spaces, the limits of language and dismantling the notion that black artistic expression is linear and in the distance.
Mitchener and Ensemble Klang perform works that explore themes of remembrance. The program includes the premiere of Tell, Jonkonnu Tell! by Jamaican-American composer Mikhail Johnson.
We caught up with Mitchener in advance of the event to talk about her curatorial perspective.
Needcompany is delighted to announce the laureate of MILL's annual Beauty Reality Salon fellowship: British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist, and composer Elaine Mitchener!
Moving Eastman, a new collaboration between Elaine Mitchener & Dam Van Huynh to be presented at Fruitmarket and Barbican
” (…) it is both the epitome of a solo record and somehow simultaneously its undoing.”
“(…) this is the aural equivalent of gazing into a crystal-clear night sky.”
“It’s mischievous, transformative material that helps bring lively, confounding poetry into new dimensions. Anyone who’s interested in all the many forms of sound poetry will find a huge amount of inspiration right here.”
