Vessel

Vessel

... takes the lived experience of medieval Anchorites as the starting point to think about the human geography of protest, the body as a political entity and whether withdrawal, hermitage, radical aloneness is, or can be framed, as a political act of resistance. It was performed by an ensemble of four within the form of a polyphonic tone poem.

I directed the work in its first iteration and then joined the cast during British Council Showcase participation in 2019.

Cast: Karlina Grace-Paseda, Tess Agus, Angela Clerkin and Kailing Fu (all pictured)

The set and lighting were designed by Ben Pacey with costumes by Holly Murray.

Creative captioning by Giles Thacker

In 2022, I reworked the performance as a duet between myself and sound designer & artist Owen Crouch as part of Emergency Chorus’ ‘Recycling Plant’ initiative.

..the feelings that the words create, rather than their meaning, come to the fore in this quietly revealing piece..

Miriam Gillison, The Guardian, 2018