Hurst Castle is to have a resident sound artist, Nimmi Naidoo, from 2nd to 14th September, and a resident dance artist Espirito Santo Mauricio from 15th to 30th September 2013. The studio will be open everyday 2pm – 4.30pm.
Espirito Santo Mauricio is a dance artist and will be arriving from Vancouver, Canada, and she is interested in connecting to local musicians who improvise, and for dancers who would like to get involved.
Espirito Santo Mauricio is a dance artist and will be arriving from Vancouver, Canada, and she is interested in connecting to local musicians who improvise, and for dancers who would like to get involved.
Espirito will be working on Project Unity, which is an artistic human experience, aiming at bringing people together through the art of contact dance improvisation, voice and music.
Over a 2 week period experienced contact dancers, musicians, voice artists and audience members will develop an ongoing relationship based on shared movement.
The object is to find or invent a form of ongoing interactive art that continues within a community, playing a different role that performance alone can play. Espirito is looking to undercut the increasingly mediated nature of this culture – the way it grows more electronically connected but, at the same time more physiologically disconnected. Her approach is to bring audience into re-opening their interactive Kinetic and tactile senses as a group.
If you would like to contact Espirito, her details are: Espirito Santo Mauricio at espiritosm@gmail.com
Espirito Santo Mauricio started performance at age 5, acting, singing dancing. Trained in folk dance, ballet, voice, theatre, gymnastics, improvisation, modern, Flamenco, Labban Barttenief, Body Mind Centering. Contact Improvisation, yoga, Ayurveda, hip hop. Her work is dedicated at generating peace within and out, through the meditative nature of contact dance improvisation.
Sound Artist in Residence at Hurst Castle
Sound Artist, Nimmi Naidoo will be creating a low-tech sound studio next to the Café in Hurst Castle from 2nd to 14th September.
“We chose a sound artist to be our first artist-in-residence because we wanted to offer visitors new way of experiencing the Castle,” said a spokesperson at the Fleetwood Initiative, the charity who are curating the Residency.
“Sound Art invites us to listen closely to where we are.” Nimmi said. “I will be rambling across the shingle and through the Castle in search of hidden sounds. I like to find the detail, small corners that are resonant with the character of a place.”
As well as recording sounds, this Sound Artist will be searching the ground for anything that will make a noise. Nimmi explained, “Found instruments are exciting to work with, you never know what you will hear from them.”
Visitors can join Nimmi on a free Listening Walk. At 4.30pm on Wed. 4th Sept, Sat. 7th Sept, Sun. 8th Sept, and Wed. 11th Sept. (You can book at the studio on the day)
Nimmi graduated with an MA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Oxford Brookes University in 2011.
Nimmi Naidoo
www.nimminaidoo.com
Hurst Castle is currently open daily 10.30am to 5.30pm.
www.hurstcastle.co.uk
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