Speaking Towards One Another

Speaking Towards One Another is a live staged performance and video installation for voice, live electronics, wearable performance technology, and British Sign Language, created and performed by Stephanie Lamprea (creative director and performer), Yuki Neoh (performer), Megan McArthur (performance interpreter, integrated), Jen McGregor (stage dramaturg), Oana Stanciu (video artist), and Anne Kjær (video dramaturg and performer).

About the live performance

This unique live performance will use electronics to transform and digitise the singing and speaking voice, and wearable digital technologies to transform British Sign Language into live sounds and visuals. The performance will feature two newly commissioned musical works by composers Laura Bowler and Amble Skuse, and recent works by composers Lisa Robertson, Stuart Macrae, and Tom W. Green, setting texts by writers and artists Alwynne Pritchard, Carol Ann Duffy, Gertrude Stein, Adah Isaacs Menken, and Hannah Siddiqui. These works create a theatrical narrative addressing topics of women’s testimony, language and the body, gender representation, and resilience within disability.

Accessibility

The concert will be accessible to hearing and D/deaf audience members via visual interpretations of the music, live captions, a live BSL translator, and printed programmes with all texts spoken, sung, and signed in the performance.

About the exhibition

A video installation, created by Oana Stanciu in collaboration with Anne Kjær, Stephanie Lamprea, and Yuki Neoh, will play on a single screen during the concert reception. There will also be recorded music, composed by Wende Bartley and performed by Stephanie Lamprea, that will play during the installation. The installation features ‘moving portraits’ inspired by the work of artists Yma Sumac (Peruvian opera singer), Adah Isaacs Menken (American writer and performer), Teresa de Cartagena (deaf Spanish nun and writer), Isadora Duncan (American dancer), Miriam Răducanu (Romanian dancer). Representing ideas of gender performativity, female presence and expression, and testimony, the images in this installation seek to subvert the male gaze and rather become the figures power who gaze upon the public.

Speaking Towards One Another is made possible with funding from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland, Hope Scott Trust, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Make It Happen Fund, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities with support from Inspace Gallery, the Institute for Design Informatics, and Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow.

Schedule

19:15 – Doors open

19:30 – Live Performance

20:45 – Reception and Video Installation Preview

22:00 – End of event

Artists

Stephanie Lamprea – creative director and performer

Yuki Neoh – performer

Megan McArthur – performance interpreter (integrated)

Jen McGregor – dramaturg (live performance

Oana Stanciu – visual artist (video installation)

Anne Kjær – performer and dramaturg (installation)

Tim Cooper – live electronics

Composers: Amble Skuse, Laura Bowler, Lisa Robertson, Stuart MacRae, Tom W. Green, Wende Bartley (installation only)