Live Productions
Moving visual art into an interactive and evolving artform has acted as a catalyst for live stage theatre performances and audio-visual installations in collaboration with dancers, actors, composers, and artificial intelligence, directed by Aberdeen Performing Arts and National Theatre of Scotland.
Tatties & typhoid ham
Tatties and Typhoid Ham is a fusion of live evolving visual art, music, poetry and spoken word, wherein three women born and bred in Aberdeen share their thoughts and experiences on being in lockdown during the typhoid outbreak in 1964 and their concurrent situation during the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak.
The making of a feminist
The making of a feminist is inspired by the complex entanglement of human and computer 'intelligence' in a time of crisis, in collaboration with Improviser Maria Sappho and Prof. Dubravka Pokrajac based at the University of Aberdeen. ’Invisible Women’, a...
The player piano
The Player Piano draws inspiration from perforated piano rolls used in old pianolas. Sequential rolls of paper at the keyboard flows and rolls out gradually whilst Composer Ross Whyte performs and Visual Artist Kate Steenhauer draws, creating a dialogue...
The shelter
The Shelter is an interdisciplinary collaboration combining live drawing in Japanese ink, a multi-voiced verbatim performed by Creative Writer Shane Strachan, and original musical compositions and soundscape by Ross Whyte. The Shelter reflects contemporary...
In the bell
In the bell explores humanity’s complexities with sexuality, gender and identity. This intimate and evolving audio-visual work is created around a database of stories where collaborators shared their personal thoughts, physical battles, mental struggles, and...
Painting music
Painting Music uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create music from live-painted drawings, in real time and unique for each performance. The production is a collaboration with AI engineers Dr. Starkey and Jack Caven from the University of Aberdeen....
Hedda
Hedda is a multi-disciplinary and multi-platform experience in which a unique dialogue is created between movement, sound and live Japanese ink drawings unfolding on a screen through a projector. This collaboration is with Dancer/Choreographer Imogene...