Leister, Wiebke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0050-6485,
2018,
Show, Exhibition or Event,
'Echoes and Callings'
Abstract or Description: | Exhibition work: ‘Echoes and Callings’, 6 collages, 40x50cm (3 B&W prints on Japanese paper, yellow acetate) on 50x60cm, 2018. Solo exhibition: Echoes and Callings, White Conduit Projects, London, 24.06.-29.07.2018 (response by Yui Shikakura & Laura Sampson, 05.07.2018) Description: 'In these images, we are meeting Hannya. And Namanari. And possibly Hashi-Hime. Masks of angry spirits that emerge from Japanese Noh drama and storytelling. She will be met in different figurations and materialities, but we will encounter her through her transformative states as woman who has become a demon – through pain or betrayal. Her images themselves now returning ghosts, apparitions and echoes, seeking both revenge and release. Re-embodied, contradictory and intertextual, we will be following her imaginary genealogy in word and image. Telling tales of silence and manifestation, pain and embodiment, stillness and fury – from abstraction to figuration. Body in pieces, mouth half-open, part shouting, part screaming; troubled and maltreated, while setting out to frighten. Conjuring up her liminal existence as she reveals herself as a terrifying image that is being upheld. In this way, she has existed throughout times and cultures. But today, more than ever, recognized as released and untamed, and finally, speaking out, loud.' The images of screaming faces were first used for the live collage projection performance ‘Echoes and Callings’ at Kings Place in June 2018. The collages have first been shown at a solo exhibition at White Conduit Projects in London, and have since been exhibited in different contexts. |
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Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art Creative Arts and Design > W400 Drama Creative Arts and Design > W600 Cinematics and Photography > W640 Photography |
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School or Centre: | Other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Copyright Holders: | wiebke leister | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funders: | GB Sasakawa foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Noh Theatre; Hannya; Namanari; female demon; scream | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2024 12:42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2024 13:37 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5905 |
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