9 January 2017
Cafe OTO, London
Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet
Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet
Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet
Guest performer alongside Apartment House.
Performance with Jarman Award shortlisted artist Mikhail Karikis. Part of the Film London Jarman Awards weekend.
Of Leonardo Da Vinci – UK premiere
The festival opened with the premiere of [NAMES] – a 3 hour durational work and a chapter from Sweet Tooth.
Public sharing of SWEET TOOTH at St George’s Bloomsbury – a Hawksmoor church which is said to have had links with the Abolitionist movement.
The performance featured:
Elaine Mitchener vocalist/movement
Sylvia Hallet, Jason Yarde, Mark Sanders – instrumentalists
Commissioned by the artist Sonia Boyce to create I back…I neck…I face…I chest – a 20 minute ‘anonymous exploration of identity through movement, sound art and vocalisation’ which was performed to an invited audience and filmed as part of We Move In Her Way, a new project by Sonia Boyce. Sonia’s video installation will be shown in Feb 2017.
SWEET TOOTH – Open Session public sharing on 11 August.