internationalisms

A few months back, I was invited by Maddy Costa and the Dramaturg’s Network to speak on a panel about “Diaspora Dramaturgies”. I still don’t really know what that term means (and perhaps it’s …

On tourism, and a tourist’s job. I’ve been working in Sri Lanka for the last 6 weeks, although my visa is technically correct when it says I’ve been here on holiday. I haven’t been paid for what I’m …

It's late in Week 4 of our Sura Medura residency. If last week was all about beats, tunes and noise; then this week’s been all about orchestral composing, performance text and the sea. Also a whole …

So we’ve come to Sri Lanka, and we’re staying right by the sea, and now we’re working almost entirely on laptops with headphones. Our fellow artists here must think we’re nuts. To be clear, there’s …

Horse God The pantheon of gods in Sri Lanka is a complex hierarchy of beings ultimately subject to the cycle of birth and rebirth in the same manner humans are; a process that in Theravada Buddhism …

One of the main drives of these Sura Medura residencies is to push and take risks with our practice. The residencies are hosted by Neil Butler, who’s got strong form in making and producing radical …

Hikkaduwa 2018 On the beach a tourist couple are ankle-deep in the surf, and she's performing the kind of frolicking you only perform at the edge of the sea if you have a camera's gaze upon you. The …

I think it was 2014, at the caravan showcase, when Bettina Linstrum first mentioned the Sura Medura residency project to us. Now it’s February 2018, and here we are, towards the end of Week 1 of a …

The film above is edited from footage we shot in Normandy this summer, around a screenplay I've been writing called Utah. I’ve been writing it for about 7 years now, on and off. Well I say ‘writing’. …

We welcome your ears to the second What The Found Sound, where we delve into bits of our sound archive we’ve most likely forgotten about, and liveblog our reactions. A few footnotes at the bottom of …

Last month, we went out to Athens to be resident at the totally ace Bios for a week, to start researching Steady State. The residency was supported by Caravan, who not only stumped up the cash money …

Hello and welcome to What The Found Sound, where we delve into bits of our sound archive we've most likely forgotten about, and liveblog our reactions. A few footnotes at the bottom of the page, but …