Walking Choir, Retraced
Walking Choir, Retraced
by VOICING, facilitated by soft shock
Walking Choir, Retraced
Participatory Choral Performance • Sat 18 July • 15:00 • Starting Point in the Main Hall
Walking Choir is an experimental participatory choral performance by Voicing Project which will start in Conway Hall and unfold into the adjacent Red Lion Square Gardens.
The performance converses with and extends the short-film of the same name, which is showing in the exhibition space of KONTEKST festival at the Bertrand Russell Room.
While the film traces the choir’s walk along the Kentish coastline, the live performance comes as a reiteration of this act of deciphering. It extends the in-situ and site-sensitive scoring process uncovered through walking, listening and being with place.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS & FACILITATORS:
VOICING
VOICING is a collaborative project by artists Noa Costello and Tomislav Latinovic, working across film, movement, and choral practices. We look for intersections between Irish/Slavic folk traditions and queer languages of intimacy, storytelling, and non-normative archives as tools for connection and critique. Central to the project is a free community choir, which functions as both an artistic method and a social structure. Rehearsals, workshops, and site-responsive sessions form the material basis for VOICING’s films, performances, and installations, allowing sound and movement to emerge collectively rather than through a single authorial voice.
The VOICING Choir:
Jessie Godwin, Peggy Sykes, Tegwen Rattray, Emily Buckley Bunn , Naomi Miller , Tiger Rose, Naomi Miller, Claire McMichael, Esther Weisselberg, Scarlet Short, Hanna Westling, Jemima Pike, Georgia Botros, Rosie Kyrin White, Cecilia Ettedgui.
soft shock
soft shock is a London-based curatorial collective led by curators Júlia Polo (she/her) and Georgie Worth (she/her). With a commitment to sustainable and socially-engaged practices, their curatorial ethos is shaped by interdisciplinary research in the fields of ecology, memory and place. Working with moving image, sound, and performance artists, they centre public programming and participation to facilitate spaces for intergenerational and interspecies knowledge sharing, collective slow doing and process-oriented practices. Their recent work has involved public programming in collaboration with Artangel, Gasworks, SET Social, Bridgehouse Gardens and Tolson Museum.
