E.James wrote:
>Nekyia, UEA Norwich and Rotterdam
>
>Sorry, catching up days late here, but just to mention there is
>beautifully designed & really engaging version (I take it?) of this
>piece that's on the current Performance Research journal supplement CD
>(PR4:2) alongside works by John Cayley, Simon Biggs, Jane Prophet,
>Louise K. Wilson. Enquiries [log in to unmask]
>
This is not exactly a 'version' of this piece. Joseph Hyde was making the
CDRom work at the same time as working on our collaborative performance
piece. The texts he used were mine, the ones we were working with for
Nekyia, but their presentation (fonts, layouts, fragmentation, alignment,
filming etc etc) is all Jo's. He has cut up and completely reconfigured my
texts so that I can often hardly recognise what the original writing was.
For this reason, Jo calls it "64 Refractions: Nekyia". There is a
reconfigured version of this piece for the web on Riding the Meridian
http://www.heelstone.com/meridian
As Alison mentioned, text from Nekyia is in Masthead, but again this is
work in progress towards the performance text rather than the script itself
as it now stands. Some of the material in all these versions is in the
performance piece (in the voices on the soundscape, the writings in the
video and in the text spoken live by me and sung live by Steve Halfyard).
The full 35 minute performance of Nekyia is almost operatic in a weird way.
There is also a 10 minute piece called "Nekyia Study", for me speaking with
electronic sounds.
We are at present preparing a video and a cd as promotional material.
Anyone with suggestions of places that might be interested in booking
either the full 35 minute or the technically simpler 10min pieces would be
welcomed.
Elizabeth: I will pass your comments on his piece on to Joseph Hyde.
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