a performance installation situating the diasporic body in conversation with the sea. working with breath and the gaze, five performers shift and blur the boundaries between personal and collective narratives in a meditation on (post-)coloniality, lineage and the concept of 'founding'.
-- sea flights (every one of them landed on a beach like this) concept / choreography : jee chan in performance with : sara cook, marios ento-engkolo 呉家慇 (angel ng ka yan), claricia parinussa video / dramaturgical assistance : stefan pente sound : sara cook, 呉家慇 (angel ng ka yan) light : jazz hutsby production / technical : neil anderson, ali biggs, amy dawson, lucy gaizely, kevin murray, neil smith, calum paterson mentors : rosina bonsu, laura gonzalez, alberta whittle developed with support from the contemporary performance practice programme at the royal conservatoire of scotland presented at into the new festival 2019 pearce institute, glasgow 21 march 2019 |
"... the smell of the sea pleased him so much that he wanted one day to take it in, pure and unadulterated, in such quantities that he could get drunk on it. and later, when he learned from stories how large the sea is and that you can sail upon it in ships for days on end without ever seeing land, nothing pleased him more than the image of himself sitting high up in the crow’s nest of the foremost mast on such a ship, gliding on through the endless smell of the sea – which really was no smell, but a breath, an exhalation of breath, the end of all smells – dissolving with pleasure in that breath." -- süskind / das parfum (1985)
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image credits : stefan pente