Britten Pears Arts: Open Fund for Organisations
Creative Residencies at Britten Pears Arts
Creative Residencies provide time, space and support for artists to explore new projects and collaborations and create new work. In the year ahead, seven projects will be supported with funds from the PRS Foundation. Residencies are entirely artist-led, with no commercial or artistic gain for Britten Pears Arts. BPA’s role is to enable their success, with our support tailored around the needs of each artist and project. Some of the Open Fund projects are:
Chisato Minaminura: INPUT:OUTPUT is a performance experiment that looks at ways to create ‘visual soundscapes’ and make music a much more inclusive experience. Chisato’s collaborative, Deaf-led approach challenges assumptions about who can create soundscapes and what musical performances may look, sound, or feel like from a non-hearing perspective.
Evadney: using song, electronics, live visuals and projection mapping to explore the thoughts, dreams and emotions of his own inner creative space. Collaborating with a visual artist, he shows how abstract ideas emerge from within his body to take physical form in live performance – and ultimately generate a powerful connection with the listener.
Chisara Agor: Nocturnal Sun/Dust, an inter-disciplinary performance piece centring around themes of human history, spirituality and ecology. Beginning with exploring humanities relationship with the sun, set in a world where the nearest star is dying. The full piece would follow humanity reflecting on our inter-personal, ecological and internal relationships and conflicts in different movements or ‘moving sound paintings’.