Sue Hill is a WILDWORKS founding artist, who was born and educated in Cornwall. She has worked with many companies including Welfare State International, Emergency Exit Arts, Walk the Plank Theatre Ship, and the Royal National Theatre. In 1988 she joined Kneehigh theatre company, serving on their management team from 1994 – 2001 and helping to grow their distinctive style of theatre. From 2000 until 2006 she was Artistic Director for the Eden Project, developing their innovative interpretation strategy, commissioning artists, writers and performers to illuminate Eden’s ideas and messages. With her brother Pete Hill she has made many large-scale carnival images and earth sculptures, including the iconic Mudmaid in the Lost Gardens of Heligan.
Imwen Eke
Imwen Eke is a digital artist, director and creator. With over twelve years immersive theatre and multidisciplinary arts industry experience which include SHUNT, Punchdrunk and residencies with Blast Theory and Bryony Kimmings. Her practice explores social gaming, digital and live interactive performance combined with contemporary narratives that engage new audiences outside of the conventions of traditional theatre. She is a LIFT Artist (London International Festival of Theatre) and creates work through her company New Party Rules. She is currently a resident of Pervasive Media Studios where she is developing “Blk Rooms” a new interactive participatory experience.
Pippa Taylor & Jony Easterby
Pippa Taylor & Jony Easterby Pippa Taylor is an artist and musician based in mid Wales.A multi instrumentalist playing piano, viola and fiddle. She is also an accomplished woodcarver and painter who has created both public artworks and exhibited internationally. Jony Easterby is an artist, designer, maker, producer, director, performer, a passionate naturalist and plants-man.Using both digital and analogue media, Jony investigates the boundaries between raw elemental materials, sound technology, composition, landscape and architecture.
Kathy Hinde
Kathy Hinde Kathy Hinde’s work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audio-visual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. Drawing on inspiration from behaviours and phenomena found in the natural world, she creates work that is generative; that evolves; that can be different each time it is experienced. Kathy aims to create work that gives rise to a poetic and reflective experience that enriches an appreciation of the everyday, inviting a heightened awareness of the world around us.
Jane Pitt
Jane Pitt is an interdisciplinary artist with a particular focus on sound & multi-sensory perception. Making work in response to sites as well as in active participation with the public in public spaces; on land, water and moving vehicles. Sura Medura will allow her to really get to grips, in a way that she wouldn’t at home, with interpreting place through it’s soundscape; exploring how a soundtrack, like a song, can carry and transmit our feeling for that place when played and sung. She is especially interested in connecting with women in the local fishing community.
Anne Milne
Anne Milne is an award-winning Scottish filmmaker. Her film María’s Way was nominated for the European Film Award 2010, and won a BAFTA New Talent award as well as playing at numerous international film festivals, and picking up more awards. After being awarded a WorldView Multi Media Grant, she travelled to Nepal to shoot Himalayan Sisters which later won an editing award at the 2011 Underwire Festival. Since then she has been working on a number of commissioned films. Into Deep Space, a short film about the search for exo-planets was shown at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York and Dublin where it was awarded a Special Mention. In recent times she has been producing short documentaries with the Scottish Documentary Institute, the most recent Swan (2016) was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Short film and shortlisted for a Grierson Award. She has also been co-teaching documentary workshops with SDI/British Council in Libya, Pakistan, and Jordan. Anne is currently directing a film, Adventures in Dementia commissioned by STV and produced by Scottish Documentary Institute. It is due to be broadcast in 2019. She is also co-founder of DocKlub.
Jamie Wardrop
Jamie Wardrop is a Glasgow based freelance theatre maker and designer. He trained on the BA Acting Course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is self-taught in projection, sound, film, composing and 3d animation, as part of the Edinburgh Hogmanay Festival 2019 Jamie created live visuals for Capercaillie, Carlos Núñez and the 20 piece Symphonic Ibiza playing Ibiza dance classics in the McEwan Hall. For the Hogmanay street party, he created a celebratory projection mapped live visuals on to the Bank of Scotland HQ on the mound. Other VJ credits for 2018 include Basement Jaxx, Forth Awards – Usher Hall, Rozalla, Amy MacDonald, Go West and many techno djs as part of his residency at SWG3, Glasgow.
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper Alice is an Edinburgh-based theatre maker, actor and clown originally from Sydney, Australia. She makes work for all ages and is passionate about sustainability and making work that has the environment at its heart. Alice’s show, Waves (‘a miniaturist gem’ The Observer) has been presented extensively including to Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Auckland Arts Festival and New Zealand International.
Cocoloco blog
Cocoloco. the discourse. Sura Medura. Blog 11.
The aim was to take people’s attention from thumb scrolling banality to essential artistic experience, albeit an unfashionable one – the book reading on the street. We were looking at the communicative power of acoustic sound and the musical intensity of many languages spoken at the same time. Our thesis was to capture people’s attention for a moment, a ‘street theatre time’ for the purpose of entertainment while the massed action readings provided the performative element. Our readers used English, Sinhalese, Czech, Albanian, Italian and French. The day turned out to be sumptuously beautiful. The chosen venue (a rampart in Galle Fort overlooking the sea) was apposite for the overall look and study of the sound. Dave House recorded the event with high-tech equipment (resulting mix coming soon). We did regret starting a little too early and missing the extraordinary magic hour before sunset over the sea because our drivers were a bit tetchy to get home before dark but it’s a minor quibble. The piece was highly regarded and a huge success from our point of view and from audience reaction. We can’t wait to continue the experiment elsewhere. A short video of the event is available here.
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Helen Statman
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Helen Statman & Dave House
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Florent Mehmeti
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Trevor Stuart
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Aneta Fodorova
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Sudu and Chinthaka
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Tim Hinam
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Matteo Lanfranchi
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A guest reader
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Sita Pieraccini
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Fabrice Deperrois (reader & plinth art designer)
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Fabrice’s library
Blog 10
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Neil asked how the reading performance was progressing? We’re looking at various options for plinths. We have nearly all our team (9) standing by (English, Scottish, French, Australian, Italian, Czech but we need Sri Lankans and we’re having trouble finding some. We gave a talk about our work at the Faculty Arts/performance and the students were very reticent to come forward with questions, opinions, anything really…
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We thought we might do a performance in the Hikkaduwa Sunday market but there’s not even enough space to scratch one’s arse. We also thought we’d do it by the river where the turtles come in but after two recces we decided against because there were too many truculent Russian tourists.
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We decided to do a recce in Galle. Luckily the first Test match was on. We sat for a little while on the Galle fort ramparts to watch for free opposite the Mahinda Rajapaksa pavilion. See if you can spot the ball in this pic. (p.s. England won.)
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After fishing around many different sights we have decided to make our performance on the sea wall at the far end of the fort.
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Here we can put 8 performers on decorated boxes 20 metres apart reading exuberantly to the sea. Passers-by can stop and listen at will. Watch this space…
Blog 9
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We were obsessed by the 1st June, 1981 burning of the Jaffna library by Sinhalese rebels. This biblioclasm destroying about 100,000 rare Tamil texts, it is cited as being one of the trigger points of a horrible 26 year war ending in over 100,000 dead from both sides and a very bad taste in the mouth from the genocide in the last weeks of the war leading to the declaration of victory on 18th May, 2009.
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Mission statement in 3 languages.
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Our vision in 3 languages.
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Thiruvalluvar. Poet born in 2nd century BC. The library saint. Many Tamil people we met said that they had no voice in Sri Lanka.
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We are in Sri Lanka in political chaos – chairs and chilli powder throwing in Parliament. (We acknowledge it’s not as horrific as the grenade in 1987).
It has drawn our attention to the cult of personality, mass media propaganda and abuse of power. The idealised, heroic and worshipful image of Rajapaksa has brought us back to Dr YaYa and the desire to make some theatre around these subjects. Dr and Lady YaYa are inspired.
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It’s an achingly beautiful place despite the racism, corruption, poverty, slow internet and poor cricket results.
Blog 8. Sura Medura. Jaffna
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We were itching to go to Jaffna to research a different culture from our Sinhalese based Hikkaduwa life. We took a train from Colombo on a terrifically rickety track for 9 hours to Jaffna, capital of the Tamil north.
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We crossed Ele- phant Pass, the route for the an- cient Probosci- des from India and site of seri- ous battles dur- ing the Tamil Tiger years.
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This is the home of the gorgeous Palmyra palm, just as useful (100%) as the coconut palm and way more sexy.
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Cows are are beautiful but sometimes need a treatment. Street life can be so wearing on the skin.
Can cows contract botulism from botox injections?
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We checked out the Active Theatre Movement in trepidation for the possibility of a Lankan Ar- taudian revolution. Just think – Kathakali/Bollywood/Expressionist theatre… sadly, not a lot going on…
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There are 2 long causeways (one new and smooth, the other, rutted and potholed) and a ferry to the Jaffna island, Nagadipa, where there is a Hindu temple and a rare in the north, Buddhist temple. Helen’s left foot flip-flop broke as she alighted the ferry. She walked 100 metres to the temple and there in front of her was an almost new left foot flip flop, just the one and the right (correct) foot… some would say “Miracle!” others “a nice coincidence”.
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Nice temple. Ornate. Grand. Colourful. Comical. Comical, historical, tragical, pastoral.
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This sort of sums up just about everything…
Exciting times Blog 7
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This fisherman travels around 1,200 miles over 3 months to fill his frozen fish fridge. He’s fallen overboard in high seas off Africa and has a theory in which Indian Ocean trench we can find MH370.
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We stayed a night with Colombo artists, CoCA Art, Poornima Jayasinghe and Chinthaka Thenuwara. He repairs old amplifiers on the side. Hi Fi! and she’s Head of Visual Art at the British School (long hours, low pay). They live off the road in a gated cul-de-sac. One doesn’t hear noisy Colombo in this haven. They are the most delightful people/artists and they can’t get a visa to come to see us in London because of British travel restrictions…
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Chinthaka’s 86 year old father still drives this 1938 Mercedes Benz. 80 years on the road and barely a tuk tuk screatch.
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Art in Sri Lanka has many forms. In Galle and Colombo there is a competitive art scene with some heavyweight work at the Biennale. Everywhere else has a distinctly folk art feel. For we smug, first world, flat white society, late modern practitioners it is hard to define artistic worth. We battle with our prejudice, racism, preconceived notions and definitions of objectivity daily…
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We also struggle with alien custom like this Puberty Ceremony (pic and name on large photo book withheld). We met a wonderful Tamil family here six years ago. Now, two of the three girls proudly show us their puberty party pics involving complete adultification with visits from parents of boys for the purpose of arranged marriage. We of the atheistic west love the ethnic bizarre yet loathe the rigid religious ritual. One wants to be a doctor, the other, a lawyer. We pray that education and revolution will save these souls in the Hitchens/Dawkins model.
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Talk about social mores. What did this poor individual do to deserve this? We thought Catholic Inquisition/hell punishment threats in James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” was nasty but this Buddhist diorama takes the cake. Wewurukannala Vihara. Dikwella. (not made up).
Blog 6
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This architectural dream. This Sura Medura. Quite Frank Lloyd Wright. We’ve been given the Mango room. We lean out on our balcony. We pick a mango. (The above tree is also a mango).
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Seems a bit sexist but the Sura Medurian women are on the boat trip on Dodanduwa Lagoon too.
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“That’ll teach her for being a bad mother.” Buddhist temple on an island in the lagoon.
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Local and international hero, Matteo de Milano. The beard is false.
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First weekend workshop with the fabulous Sri Lankan contingent – an Emotional Mapping exercise opened up our creative juice sluice.
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We made Constellation Maps of our relationships in many forms….
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We found time to play the exciting and competitive Film Game. The above team won.
Cocoloco coconut – Sura Medura blog 5
Performance 1. Sura Medura, 2018. “Coconuts fall only on bad people”
Dr YaYa sat under a coconut palm for a defined time in an attempt to explore the myth abounding in countries renowned for their coconut palms that the tree somehow has knowledge of a person’s moral history – i.e. whether a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ person is sitting under it.
As a rationalist, Dr YaYa defied the above mentioned myth by purposefully imagining ‘bad’ thoughts or reliving any ‘bad’ moments in judgment that he might have made during his colourful life. He also hummed “Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones. Dr YaYa had agreed with the”coconuts’ management” that in the event of an accident he would not pursue any legal matters arising from this performance.
Dr YaYa had considered the following re – falling coconut mortality.
The coconuts under which Dr YaYa sat had not been ‘cleaned’ i.e. cut and removed at the usual time at Dr YaYa’s request to ensure that the coconuts were ‘loaded and ready to drop’.
The speed of a coconut falling from above 5 metres could be around 50mph.
There are approximately 150 deaths each year from falling coconuts. This is a disputed statistic but the extrapolation from figures in some tropical countries appears to be consistent.
No coconuts fell on Dr YaYa’s head in the allotted time. However, one coconut did fall a week later. No one was harmed.
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Do Coconuts fall only on bad people?
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Dr YaYa dares nature’s whims
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Dr YaYa receives an acolyte
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Dr Yaya with a ‘rabbit’ coconut by Fabrice
Sura Medura Blog 4 – a dream in the process of awakening
Imagine one is constructed out of architectural and spatial properties of the site where one finds oneself: the daylight, the lush vegetation, the straight angled perspective, the smooth concrete floor, the flat white surfaces, the booming emptiness, the wooden window frames, the brutalist staircase. A homage to a tropical modernist Geoffrey Bawa masterwork surrounded by wildlife. Functional opulence. Do I mimic my context or am I an extension of it? Is this just a fancy game? No, it is rather a way of understanding oneself in a state of isolation. A form of forced holistic self-reflection. My inner externalization argues that it depends on the acknowledgement that you and I carry our environment within us.
This fantasy projection reverberates while attempting to navigate the traces stretched across remote territories of anticipation and inhibition. Contemplation and mind stretching, intimacy and dislocation, imagination and physical encounter – everything is possible. One could even find one’s elf.
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Helen looking for her elf
SM Orientation 3
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Nice spread at Chaminda’s place
Orientation 2nd day. Tsunami photo gallery.
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The gallery consists of dozens of fading photos with curling edges. It’s a small community Tsunami Museum, aimed at educating and preserving the memories of the 2004 Tsunami. It’s informative and harrowing. And graphic.
Cocoloco – Sura Medura blog Orientation – Day 1
North
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Zephyr Liddell Blog
Week 5
A week of meeting makers! having a great time learning batik, doing lots of dressmaking with a local tailor and had a mask made by a wood carver! Hopefully some final pieces are now coming together!
The SBE – we’ve spent a day painting together – a wonderful and highly enjoyable time! its coming together well and the work is forming!
Cocoloco/Helen & Trevor made a performance in Galle reading to the sea ! very beautiful indeed!
Week 3
Going into week 3, I’m aware of the need to concentrate on my own research and work as well. I will try to create time for this in-between show meetings. Neil suggested a work everyday – I’ve taken this quite seriously, lol, I think I’ve now got a proposal for each day! but I’d like to define and work alone on just one idea in the coming weeks.
My hope is that in the final 2 weeks that I’ll be able to work with some of the performers to share movement scores and produce some batiks for the costume. sharing movements and dressing up together seam to be very important in the development of my own “solo”/not solo practice.
Sura Medura – Artist Residency – 30/10/2018
Having arrived in Sri Lanka and Hikkaduwa at night, when I wake I’m suddenly struck by the amazingly beautiful surroundings, the ocean, the tress and plants. All around the town there are wonderful leaves, flowers, colourful houses, as I make my way to Sura Medura in the morning the bright, oranges, yellows and pinks are so vivid against the green shades, some look screen printed! A half hour cycle up the road in Dodanduwa, the new Sura Medua building stands monolithic in white on the edge on a lagoon, the most beautiful and peaceful surroundings. The vegetation sings to me, vibrancy, form and deep undulating shadows.
The political upheaval in in full swing and many people are rallying in Colombo, I’ll provide some links for more information on this below, this situation, the abuse of powers, government and corruption will undoubtedly have a huge impact to us all while we work.
The residency space is still being built for the first week or so, but we get started with tours of the area, working together and meeting with the Sri Lankan artists. The Sri Lankan artists are here to work with a team from UK, France, Italy and Czech, their objective is to create a ‘format’ for a new show, The Snowball Effect, that will be re-created in many countries. Part of my residency I have to work for 2 weeks in collaboration, so I’ll join them for 2 of my 6 weeks here.
I spend the first week, traveling around the local area meeting people and learning where/what and how I will find/work with materials. Sudu takes me to visit The Jungle Batik Shop, and there I meet with an artist and craft maker to learn and research methods of batik and fabric dying. He’s very very busy and he is working alone at home in a very small work shop so I’m hoping that he will have space and time to teach or show me some small elements of his design/creation process.
I love working with others, to feel and sharing methods, ideas and process. I’m only Part time on the Snowball Effect but I am able to share some costume/prod design ideas, suggestions for divisive elements – also my stage mgmt/production skill come in very helpful.
The Snowball effect is a huge, highly ambitious project. I find that I’m checking in with the team everyday or hearing bits about the work, also as I love working with others its hard for me to leave to conversation. It also feels that maybe the physical manifestation of the costume is not the important factor, perhaps its the design brief that is the important – ? – the transferable thing. Balancing this with the perpetual feeling of needing to produce quality work, the fine line of time and attention.
No time for that – as we hit Colombo for a 3 night stay, to give a presentation at the University of Visual and Performing Arts. I separate from the group and have a wonderful time traveling by tuktuk and exploring the city, to Maharagama and Pettah markets for fabrics and dyes for Batik. To Barefoot store to meet with Manel and learn hand weaving (more info/pics ). The city is full and fun – so much more to see but in one weekend I hopefully got some useful materials, hard to tell as I’m not sure what the costumes will be yet or if I will use fabric in my ‘solo’ works…