The violinist and composer worked with director David Pountney and Portuguese visual artist Hugo Canoilas for a 20-minute piece with ‘its own identity, its own world and its own visual experience’
, it will have its own visual experience. I’m really excited to get into the performing space, because it’s so site-specific a piece that there’s really only so much that we can do chatting away with each other in the rehearsal room.”Breathwork, which is partly pre-recorded and partly live, is having six performances on each day of its three-day run at Project Arts Centre. “I’m very excited to see it come to life and for it to progress through all the different viewings.
The process was highly collaborative. “It’s not as if I was left with the sole responsibility to create this work and it would then be directed and then it would be staged. It’s very much a collaborative entity between the director, the visual artist and the composer. Which is totally within my wheelhouse as well. Collaboration is a huge part of what I’ve done in the past. And I feel safer in that space. I don’t like when there’s too much pressure on one person.
Out of these experiences emerged “the theme of bureaucracy and how we’re kind of shepherded around the place and moved like those tanks on a board you see in those historical documentaries. That became such a massive theme, that idea of how we are displaced, in a way, and what control or lack of control that we have around that.and the destruction that we are creating, and the fact that we’re really seeing that change now.