Respondents is a project that includes performance, a film and sound sculptures developed by Rita Evans. In collaboration with dancer Marguerite Galizia—who physically engaged with the sculptures—Evans adapted her works in response to this interaction, transforming them into choreographic sculptures that invite close listening to non-human worlds. The sculptures amplify the sounds of rapidly changing habitats—sonically captured beyond the range of human hearing—through the subtle transformations of seaweed as it freezes, melts, and dries. Constructed in a hand shaping process used in custom automobile manufacturing and sensor technology, these sculptures explore and dialogue with organic elements such as air, algae, ground, skin and water.
Writing about the project by Rita Evans and Patrick Farmer has been published on the Sonic Art Research website here: https://www.sonicartresearch.co.uk/rita-evans-respondents/
Stills below from two screen video projection, colour and surround sound (10 min 34 sec running time).
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
