TRAMWAY COMMISSION & PREMIERE:
CLARICIA PARINUSSA & ROWDY SS
with ISABEL BARFOD, SEQUOIA BARNES, PARADAX PERIOD

SENDIRI

ONLINE STREAM
Fri 21 May 2021
9pm (1hr)

ACCESS: This is both a sound and visual work. There is no spoken text.

Sendiri is a meditation on survival. This live digital performance is the premiere iteration of this collaborative body of work, developed since 2019.

an occasion, of sorts
and an everyday

choosing to
and it’s bigger than us
but it’s still your decision 

a necessary burning, again
not floating now just; being
and i know now why i didn’t know why, because
no reason

and being in nothing is also being
and if i did it, this is probably how 

and the concrete still breathes
and that place won’t be found
and the birds don’t actually fly, they’re just falling slowly

and it’s not for me to tell you that it’s going to be ok
and how, then, could you even be alone, if a whole community lives inside you.

Concept: Claricia Parinussa
Performance: Rowdy SS & Claricia Parinussa
Videoscape: Isabel Barfod
Sculpture: Sequoia Barnes
Sound: Rowdy SS
Cinematography: Paradax Period
Lighting: Aisha Oyedepo / Jazz Hutsby / Paradax Period
Camera Assistant: Sekai Machache
Make up: Kala Williams
Research contributors: Ally Massa, Adebusola Ramsay, Sabrina Henry, Zoë Charlery, Alip Meilana, Maharany Ayuk Listyaningrum
Dramaturgy support: Sequoia Barnes
Producer: Zoë Charlery / ID.Y
Production Facilitator: Jazz Hutsby
Assistant Producer: Bejal Desai
Production support: Daniel Hughes

Witnesses: Loretta Crinall, Samantha Maria, Frankie Mulholland, Libby Odai, Adebusola Ramsay

With thanks to: Ally Massa, Jee Chan, Leonora Parinussa van Welie, Furmaan Ahmed, Lucy Suggate, Malik Nashad Sharpe, CPE Lighting, Coda, SWG3

Claricia Parinussa:

Claricia Parinussa is a Maluku diaspora movement artist whose practice encapsulates performance, research, writing, producing and community organising. She is interested in unknowings and bodily knowings as a site of potentiality; in opacities, in dialogues; in things and nothings and beings and thinkings, in doings.
www.clariciaparinussa.com

Sequoia Barnes:

As a scholar and Creative Practitioner, Sequoia Barnes’ work is predominately centered around making processes, rituals, and modes of fashioning. Trained in semiotics, she deploys research through praxis often in her scholarly and artistic explorations of Black diasporic symbolisms, storytelling as performance, and positioning the creative process as a performance/ritual. Her scholarly work currently explores the design techniques and aesthetic semiotics of late fashion designer, Patrick Kelly. Her most recent artistic works include her artist responses to Senga Nengudi (Fruitmarket Gallery) and Nick Cave (Tramway) with performative works entitled Sew Me A Quilt. Tell You A Story. (2019) and The Burden I Bear Is Heavy (2019), respectively.
https://sbarnes.me Instagram: @sunshine_goddess_of_the_forest

Isabel Barfod:

Isabel Barfod is an illustrator and animator based in Glasgow. Her animation practice uses experimental and traditional 2D and 3D animation to create alternate and imagined realities, centering and exaggerating the limitations of the body in space and time. Works includes Hear Me Out (2018) and Sidesteps (2019) commissioned by Africa in Motion Film Festival.
https://cargocollective.com/IsabelNB Instagram: @isabel_barfod

Rowdy SS

Rowdy SS is a London-born and based, multidisciplinary artist.  Often working at the intersection/s of sound/music, dance/movement, and live performance alongside making videos; working with instigation and/or response. International performances and works have explored love, energy, emotions, feelings, explored identity and the societal constructs surrounding, and mined life to share his vision of said life. Work that manifests in the form of ongoing projects rooted in immersive performance or experience, Rowdy includes innovative approaches to original sound/music compositions uses of video mediums, the body, dance and movement as tools for live art performance to create other spaces, dream/meditative states, environments, exploring time, repetition and surprise movement, and counter-movement. variations of a theme, motifs. noise, rhythms, time. moments of definition defined by the previous, reliant to predecession and that, which follows. Rowdy is a Somerset House Studios Resident Artist and a-n Artist Bursaries recipient. Recent international live performances include Tate Modern, NOW Gallery (2020) Alserkel Avenue, Dubai, Nottingham Contemporary, The ICA, London (2020), Turner Contemporary, Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival, The Yard Theatre, Transmediale, Berlin, Maceos, Milan (2019), Palais De Tokyo, Paris, The RA, 180 The Strand, Block Universe Performance Art Festival, The Southbank Centre (2018), online performance commissions including of collaborative projects Homework with Ekin Bernay for BU ‘Sessions’ 2020 and ‘Do I Worry’, ‘Run Come Water’ with Rebecca Bellantoni and successful residencies at Chisenhale Dance Space, Kottenspetionen Dans, Atalante and Konstall C in Sweden.
https://rowdy-ss.com/ Instagram: @rowdy_ss

Paradax Period / Ambroise Leclerc
Ambroise is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Glasgow, Scotland. With his partner Benjamin, they give form to a creative entity named Paradax Period, a creative duo of visual storytellers. Paradax Period is on the journey of exploring forms of dialogue we can all share and experience; shaping ideas into film to make Us dream again.Their house production is focused on concept-to-delivery creative projects, covering all aspects of film production and post-production.
https://paradaxperiod.com Instagram: @paradaxperiod

A Tramway Supports commission, supported by Creative Scotland, Transmission Gallery, The Work Room, Chisenhale Dance, CCA.
Photo: Sekai Machache @sekaimachache