PREMIERE: ONLINE STREAM
Fri 21 May
21:00 BST (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.

(i)

to the 95% of this space that we can’t know, yet  

and this thought has to pass through, too

[or exist among the rest ]

and those we engage, or become engaged in, or whatever is going on all the time, anyway

because there’s too much else to do, we must

and this is always bigger than us, and the tools don’t exist, yet

but it’s still your decision

because being in nothing is also being

though the first part, the base level of it (i guess)

is deciding that you want to

[so if i did it, this is probably how]

and the concrete still breathes

the spine still 360

and the birds don’t really fly, they’re just falling 

slowly

and i know now why i didn’t know why, because 

no reason

and it’s not for me to tell you that it’s going to be ok 

(ii)

that pressure would break a human body

these livings without light, creating their own light, erupting under 

(how would you know, though)

and where these black holes might be, i think; and where there might be space to,

exist

but meanwhile there are things to do, these nows, the musts 

those knowings

one cannot cancel out the other

because she is older than that

and they already were

and have been

and will be

and still that’s your decision

Words: Claricia Parinussa

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

A Tramway new work commission & premiere supported by: Creative Scotland, Transmission Gallery, Chisenhale Dance Space, The Work Room, CCA Glasgow

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