Amble Skuse (She/Her/They/Them) is a composer and sound artist who uses disability theory, body sensor technology, spoken word interviews and electronics to create unique sound works. She is interested in the interface between the disabled body and the exterior world, and has explored this through numerous sound walks using her wheelchair. Her most recent large work ‘We Ask These Questions of Everybody’ is a digital opera exploring the lives of Disabled people in the UK and premiered at ‘soundfestival’ ( Scotland:2021.)

Olga Uzikaeva (She/Her) is a contemporary dancer, performer, actress  and choreographer based in Belgrade, Serbia. In her current artistic practice Olga explores the  interaction between sound and movement using principles of instant composition and improvisation tools.

About the residency:

‘Amble and Olya examine political, national and personal independence and interdependence within a framework of inclusivity. We will be exploring the dependence of disability, the current desire for independence and apparent rejection of interdependence as a state of being for disabled in society.  We will work together, with Amble’s ‘soundpatches’, unique auditory 3D worlds, which Olya, wearing Mimu Gloves, will manipulate and explore through improvisation. This approach is a new experiment for inclusive collaboration where artists can collaborate yet work at a different pace.’

https://www.ambleskuse.net/belgrade-residency/

Funded through our 2022 Spring Residencies Scheme