sura medura

sura medura

Apr 2, 2018

Proper Lanka

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 …
Mar 11, 2018

Ocean confessions

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 …
Mar 2, 2018

Human / Technology

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 …
Mar 1, 2018

Uncanny Lanka

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 …
Feb 22, 2018

Practice Makes Practice

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 …
Feb 20, 2018

People Take Pictures Of People

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 …
Feb 18, 2018

The Museum Of Important Incidents

The Museum of Important Incidents was established some years ago (precisely when is unimportant) in order to celebrate the truth. Fame and infamy and the works of so-called significant persons are …
Feb 18, 2018

Ask me if I'm Sri Lankan

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 …