Echoes and Callings (film)

Film of live performance for projection or screen. The live performance (15min) took place was in Hall 1 of Kings Place, London, on 30 June 2018 as part of the second Noh Reimagined festival 'The Transformative Powers of Noh', commissioned and curated by Akiko Yanagisawa (mu:arts).

Wiebke Leister: photographs, live collage, projection
David Toop: sound improvisation, electro-acoustics, flute
Yukihiro Isso: nohkan flute.

Press text:
In this performance, we will be meeting Hannya. And Namanari. And possibly Hashi-Hime. Masks of angry spirits that emerge from Japanese Noh drama and storytelling. She will be met in different figurations and materialities, but we will encounter her through her transformative states as woman who has become a demon – through pain or betrayal. Her images themselves now returning ghosts, apparitions and echoes, seeking both revenge and release. Re-embodied, contradictory and intertextual, we will be following her imaginary genealogy in word and image. Telling tales of silence and manifestation, pain and embodiment, stillness and fury – from abstraction to figuration. Body in pieces, mouth half-open, part shouting, part screaming; troubled and maltreated, while setting out to frighten. Conjuring up her liminal existence as she reveals herself as a terrifying image that is being upheld. In this way, she has existed throughout times and cultures. But today, more than ever, recognized as released and untamed, and finally, speaking out, loud.

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