The Watermill Center Residency
Project title: OPERA Ensemble
Onsite and virtual residency
Organized by Lucie Vítková
Places: The Robert Wilson Watermill Center, Tokyo, and Copenhagen
Duration: April 7-May 7 2021
The postponed residency of the OPERA Ensemble is now held both onsite and virtually at The Watermill Center in Long Island NY. I will engage in the one-month residency from Tokyo Japan. We will present our work-in-progress on April 24 3pm ET.
Here, I keep track of my work during the residency.
Circle hasu Solo Exhibition
dates TBU
Performance on Mar 30 2020 mon 6pm
Performative installation everyday, and sound & poetry Installation: Mar 25 wed - Apr 1 wed (closed on Sunday)
Project title: Circle hasu
Performance, and poetic, sound and daily performative installation
Composition, production and performance by Aine E. Nakamura
Place and curation: Gallatin Galleries 1 Washington Place, 1st floor, New York
"このちいさき手 このおおきなやさしさ Comfort lands on the whispering of leaves"
For more about this ongoing project, please see HERE.
Circle hasu art of voice and body
Composition title: Circle hasu
Performance and video work
Composition and performance by Aine E. Nakamura
Place: Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Duration: 27:00 (duration of the excerpt: 04:48)
The main performance work of the ongoing project Circle hasu was documented on March 18 2020 at Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts in New York City by videographer Jeffrey Yoon. This video work was presented at Earth Day Art Model 2020, and received The Honorable Mention Award for the 2020 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize, the International Alliance for Women in Music.
I further presented my lecture-recitals, "Voice as Body, Voice and Body" at the Music and Movement Virtual Conference, which took place January 22-24 2021 at University of Pittsburgh, and at The Penn State 2021 New-Music Festival and Symposium, March 19-20; and "Circle hasu: My Art of Voice and Body" at The 2021 McGill Music Graduate Symposium, March 12-14, at the Schulich School of Music. I performed Circle hasu, and showed several examples of my transborder art of voice and body: my idiosyncratic performance grammar; and possibilities of switching between “voice as body” and “voice and body.” I also discussed about site- and time-specificity in telling stories about different places from different time through my site-specific presence with and of my woman's body.
For the whole work and description, please see HERE.
CIRCLE HASU mixed music
December 19, 2020
Composition Title: Circle hasu
mixed music composition for voice, body, and fixed media
Composition and performance by Aine E. Nakamura
Duration: 9:27 (excerpt 3:43)
Premiered at A Concert of Electronic Music in honor of Mario Davidovsky, 1934-2019 as a winning work of the APNM 2019 Electronic Music Competition.
Circle hasu is about nature veneration, animism, peace, and a woman’s body. Nakamura interacts with a media sound about nature through her embodiment as a woman’s body.
The work develops around a circle of themes that starts and ends with a lotus flower: hasu, tree, the sun, lake, wave(s), before sunset, ground, dinner table, forest, the moon, the sea, mountain, and the sky; each story connecting with the element of time of day and night. Embodiment as a woman’s body (散文JP) is woven into the stories about nature.
I want to see hasu as itself. I want to relate with it, myself being one living thing on this earth. I connect with lotus in this circle of the whole cosmos.
The last story is about the sky:
Body of the cosmos
Moves in the darkness
Unconscious goosebumps
In the quietness, fly a bird and
light
lotus
Kaeru
December 9, 2020
Composition Title: かえる Kaeru
fixed music of voices, electronics, and field recording
Composition and production by Aine E. Nakamura
Duration: 07:28