Everything I Inherited - 25 November (Old Folks Ass. hall)
Featuring (in order of appearance)
• EVERYTHING I INHERITED (part A)
Stephen Bain (text) & Hermione Johnson (composition)
Performed with The J Chorus (Johanna Smith, Julie Hill, Nimisha Rama, Joe Jowitt, Marija Dimitrijevic)
• NOT ONE TO OBJECT
Brittany Kohler (dance) & Jess Robinson (sound)
• NO JUDGEMENT
Alexa Wilson (performance) & Ivan Mršić (music)
Featuring (in order of appearance)
• EVERYTHING I INHERITED (part A)
Stephen Bain (text) & Hermione Johnson (composition)
Performed with The J Chorus (Johanna Smith, Julie Hill, Nimisha Rama, Joe Jowitt, Marija Dimitrijevic)
• NOT ONE TO OBJECT
Brittany Kohler (dance) & Jess Robinson (sound)
• NO JUDGEMENT
Alexa Wilson (performance) & Ivan Mršić (music)
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• EVERYTHING I INHERITED (part A)
Stephen Bain (text) & Hermione Johnson (composition) Performed with The J Chorus (Johanna Smith, Julie Hill, Nimisha Rama, Joe Jowitt, Marija Dimitrijevic) Based on a text written by Stephen Bain, Everything I Inherited is an exhaustive list of the objects, concepts and social structures we inherit from all of humanity. Scored by Hermione Johnson for organ and synthesiser, joined by 'The J Choir' who add texture and movement to the composition. This first 20 minute performance featured the first half of the text. |
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The Performers
Hermione Johnson
Hermione Johnson is a pianist and composer whose performances centre largely on extended and prepared piano techniques, focusing on the timbral qualities of the instrument, with a prime focus in free improvisation, she is a significant force in the New Zealand experimental music scene. She performs regularly throughout Aotearoa, as well as festival performances in Australia and Germany. Her 2020 album Tremble was released by New York label Relative Pitch.
Stephen Bain
Performance maker and writer Stephen Bain collaborates with a broad variety of artists to explore themes of urban confusion and tactical fiction. He has been creating original performances since the early 1990s, more recently engaged in public-space interventions nationally and internationally, working with theatricality, sound, film and public participation.
The J Chorus
The newly formed ‘J Choir’, whose names all start with the letter J or close to it, come together to explore voice in adventurous ways, from howling to singing to unexpected sounds. Contact us to join our regular workshops and future performances, this will be the group’s inaugural performance.
Current members Johanna Smith, Julie Hill, Nimisha Rama, Marija Dimitrijevic, Joe Jowitt.
Hermione Johnson
Hermione Johnson is a pianist and composer whose performances centre largely on extended and prepared piano techniques, focusing on the timbral qualities of the instrument, with a prime focus in free improvisation, she is a significant force in the New Zealand experimental music scene. She performs regularly throughout Aotearoa, as well as festival performances in Australia and Germany. Her 2020 album Tremble was released by New York label Relative Pitch.
Stephen Bain
Performance maker and writer Stephen Bain collaborates with a broad variety of artists to explore themes of urban confusion and tactical fiction. He has been creating original performances since the early 1990s, more recently engaged in public-space interventions nationally and internationally, working with theatricality, sound, film and public participation.
The J Chorus
The newly formed ‘J Choir’, whose names all start with the letter J or close to it, come together to explore voice in adventurous ways, from howling to singing to unexpected sounds. Contact us to join our regular workshops and future performances, this will be the group’s inaugural performance.
Current members Johanna Smith, Julie Hill, Nimisha Rama, Marija Dimitrijevic, Joe Jowitt.
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NOT ONE TO OBJECT
An improvised performance by Brittany Kohler (movement) and Jess Robinson (music), uses the dynamics of the space as a structural starting point. Each of the four movements are signalled by moving to a new chair. Running time 20 minutes |
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Brittany Kohler
Brittany Kohler is a dance artist, movement therapist and codirector of Dance Plant Collective. Brittany grew up choreographing living room performances with her twin sister Tash before beginning dance classes that took her through her school years and onto professional vocation. She choreographs theatre and site-specific work for events, festivals, and communities.
Jess Robinson
Jess Robinson is a sound artist, composer, performer and acoustics engineer from Tāmaki Makaurau. Her practice includes digital musical instrument design, algorithmic composition, and improvisation. She is interested in investigating relationships between players, instruments, and spaces.
Brittany Kohler is a dance artist, movement therapist and codirector of Dance Plant Collective. Brittany grew up choreographing living room performances with her twin sister Tash before beginning dance classes that took her through her school years and onto professional vocation. She choreographs theatre and site-specific work for events, festivals, and communities.
Jess Robinson
Jess Robinson is a sound artist, composer, performer and acoustics engineer from Tāmaki Makaurau. Her practice includes digital musical instrument design, algorithmic composition, and improvisation. She is interested in investigating relationships between players, instruments, and spaces.
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NO JUDGEMENT
Alexa Wilson (performance) & Ivan Mršić (music) No judgement revisits our most trusted relationships as a transaction between acceptance and judgement. A sung text first asks us to consider a personal or political position, then announces 'No Judgement'. The performer enters the space through a portal, a mediated fire burning endlessly on a computer screen, the musician layers the text with subtle textures through analogue and digital objects. |
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PERFORMERS
Alexa Wilson
Alexa Wilson is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist, experimental choreographer and curator, recently based in Berlin for 10 years. Her solo performance art projects and collaborative videos are political and immersive with feminist underpinnings, working with humour, paradox, activation, and subversion. She presented performances earlier this year in New York, Christchurch and Wellington.
Ivan Mršić
Ivan Mršić is an interdisciplinary visual artist, percussionist, composer and improviser, fascinated and frustrated by consumerism, waste and excessive energy consumption. Building on the foundations of the European avant-garde, Mršić’s practice incorporates many disciplines, transforming them into contemporary dialogue.
Alexa Wilson
Alexa Wilson is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist, experimental choreographer and curator, recently based in Berlin for 10 years. Her solo performance art projects and collaborative videos are political and immersive with feminist underpinnings, working with humour, paradox, activation, and subversion. She presented performances earlier this year in New York, Christchurch and Wellington.
Ivan Mršić
Ivan Mršić is an interdisciplinary visual artist, percussionist, composer and improviser, fascinated and frustrated by consumerism, waste and excessive energy consumption. Building on the foundations of the European avant-garde, Mršić’s practice incorporates many disciplines, transforming them into contemporary dialogue.
Welcome to Null Island
(September 2 Sept 2023 - Old Folks Ass, Auckland)
An evening of lapsed meaning and failed explanations as Stephen Bain & Gabriel White present a new performance about the illusion of language told in 6 episodes. With guest performances from objects, sounds and humans of the Old Folks Ass.
(September 2 Sept 2023 - Old Folks Ass, Auckland)
An evening of lapsed meaning and failed explanations as Stephen Bain & Gabriel White present a new performance about the illusion of language told in 6 episodes. With guest performances from objects, sounds and humans of the Old Folks Ass.
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Images from first performance of Welcome to Null Island at the Old Folks Ass. 25 Sept 2023 (photos M.Dimitrijevic) |
Stephen Bain is a Aotearoa/New Zealand performance maker, he has directed and designed many original plays and performances since the early 1990s. For the past 10 years he has been specifically engaged in public-space performances including audio interventions, theatrical shows and interactive installations presented in Western European countries and throughout New Zealand. He lives in Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland where he is working on community projects and public space performances.
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Gabriel White is a filmmaker and musician from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. In the 1990s, he was a member of an experimental Auckland music group, Spacesuit, and over the past half decade has produced several albums and theatrical works with Richard von Sturmer as The Floral Clocks. His feature film Oracle Drive (2013) premiered at the NZIFF 2013 has been profiled on the documentary Out of the Mist. His latest work is Countdown Mountain, a book and film.
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