Heya everyone!
This week there’s a large, varied selection of ditigal art works that I think sound pretty cool. Mrum big broadway musicals, poetic mappings of a local work to an interactive choice driven game!
Hope you enjoy
If you find anything that you enjoy then please say. Tell your friends! Hype up the artists that you love!
Walking Softly by Layla K. Feghali
Availble until July 17th
Free
Walking Softly is available as a podcast and is designed to be listened to while on a walk outside.
Join Layla K. Feghali on a guided walk through the plantcestral worlds that surround and fill us. This gentle stroll is an invitation into the soft and sensory realms of plants and the elements of your own neighbourhood, which may be real, imagined or remembered. Re-discover familiar spaces through a poetic mapping with your inward compass. A sensual re-visioning of everyday worlds. An experiential re-membrance of bodily being on and with earth. Walking Softly reveals an entry into the intimacy and connectivity of our mundane worlds. It connects your body and senses with plants, weaving them together as creative companions.
The Planet - A Lament by Garin Nugroho
Tuesday 22nd - Thursday 24th June
€12.50
A healing lament in the wake of a natural disaster
A man is the sole survivor of a destructive tsunami. He carries an egg that he’s trying to find a way to hatch. With his new piece The Planet – A Lament, the Indonesian director Garin Nugroho (previously at the festival with Setan Jawa, 2017) tells an affecting story about creation, based on a Papuan myth, against the background of a natural disaster. For this project, which features a 15-voice choir, dancers and film, Nugroho has teamed up with a cast from Indonesian Papua and Nusa Tenggara Timur, and an artistic team from across the Indonesian archipelago and Australia. The Planet – A Lament is a healing ritual that mourns a lost world while also offering hope for those left behind.
to feel something tipping, under and towards you by Es Morgan
From Thursday 24th June
Free
Es Morgan's intimate online film explores trans embodiment, visibility, being with others and being alone.
Separated by distance, how might we still feel our bodies meet, or even merge? Es Morgan's film moves through breath-like cycles in a continuous loop, interweaving textured poetry with movement.
Tales of The City by Armistead Maupin
From 21st June
From $19
10 years ago this month, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) presented the much-anticipated (and very sold out) musicalization of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City. The libretto (by Avenue Q’s Jeff Whitty) splices together the first two of Armistead Maupin’s famous books about a mélange of San Francisco denizens in the anything-goes sexual revolution of 1976.
salt : dispersed by Selina Thompson
22nd - 27th June
Pay What You Can
A journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
In Feb 2016, two artists got on a cargo ship, and retraced one of the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle – from the UK to Ghana to Jamaica, and back. Their memories, their questions and their grief took them along the bottom of the Atlantic and through the figurative realm of an imaginary past.
It was a long journey backwards, in order to go forwards. This show is what they brought back.
With the original stage show salt. performed as part of the British Council Showcase 2017, salt: dispersed is the premiere of artist Selina Thompson’s film adaptation of her award winning show about grief, Black British identity and colonialism in a powerful and intimate screen experience.
THE WORLD HAS CHANGES : YOU WILL BE JUDGED by Danielle Brathwaite Shirley
Sunday 27th June
Free
The world has changed. You (the audience) will be lead through an interactive performance lead by your choices. Find out where you fit into this new world and how your past choices have manifested themselves in the present. The audience will have to work as a team to encounter, fight and survive through the events. How we begin and end is all up to you. Are you ready?
Made of Mannheim by Chris Thorpe and Javaad Alipoor
From 22nd June
from €6
Inspired by Schiller's drama "Maiden of Orleans", the British theater makers Javaad Alipoor and Chris Thorpe are developing a theater film for the 21st International Schiller Days. In a research phase in Mannheim, they asked citizens of the city about their ideals and beliefs. On the basis of these encounters, they wrote a play that describes the path of today's Johanna through the city of squares and traces the dreams of a diverse society. Following Schiller's meter and the power of his language, a text has been created that searches for the sense of community in a diverse city. In their staging they work multilingual and with audiovisual components, so that the text becomes a score of Mannheim's visions.
Note : I used google translate to get the copy and I’m not too sure how you book ticket for this becuase I think the website a bit confusing. It looks realy cool though so thought I’d share anyway!
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Thanks again for reading and hope you find something you love
Josh xx