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untitled: holy hiatus 6

Maura Hazelden

Lou Laurens

Small World Theatre

22nd May 2013, 4pm - 10.15pm

This 6-hour performative event explores how liminal space is created, experienced and shared, using repetitions of a phrase of movement and a 13th century song.

‘there is no path; we make the path by walking’ Antonio Machado

Small World Theatre presents 'untitled: holy hiatus 5' an annual event with collaborating artists:
movement practitioner/ visual artist Maura Hazelden
singer/ sonic artist Lou Laurens.

Each event includes live vocal performance and playback of the previous year’s recording; this process amplifies the acoustic response of the space which slowly overwhelms the earlier recordings to form an extraordinary evolving soundscape.

Maura Hazelden was commissioned by Ruth Jones in 2008 to create a work for Holy Hiatus: a series of artworks and a symposium. In collaboration with Lou Laurens she created a six hour event using repetition and stillness in the Small World Centre, then newly completed.  untitled: holy hiatus is an annual ritual. This will the sixth year of the event.

A satellite exhibition of work from previous years will take place in the building during the evening.

Weblinks

holyhiatus.co.uk
untitled-holyhiatus.blogspot.com
whatevertheweatherwales.co.uk

Short Biogs

Lou Laurens has an MA in Sonic Art. She trained as a singer, and developed her vocal practice with leading teachers and performers, many within the arena of post-dramatic theatre; she also trained in Deep Listening techniques with Pauline Oliveros. Her practice includes solo and collaborative vocal performance, composition, and curation/facilitation. She teaches voice and leads community choirs. Her work explores relationships and encounters between individuals, communities, languages, and places.

Maura Hazelden A creator of multidisciplinary art: performance, installation, writing/language and photovisual. Inside, outside, site specific and in the gallery. Underlying threads of textiles and the domestic weave through the work. Preoccupations with the body, the land, place; space; memory and perception, plants. A body trained in ballet then untrained; now movement has become both a public and a private act: a creative tool, therapy for body & mind, and a devotional form.
How can language, words, express the bodily experience?

This event is supported by Small World Theatre