Exercises on Displacement is a series of five events to be held in London over the course of 2019, in five different venues. The programme brings together more than 20 artists and ensembles: an international line-up of new commissions, performances and discussions around the theme of displacement. The events are staged through Tutto Questo Sentire (TQS), the collective founded in 2014 by visual artist Rebecca Salvadori with experimental opera singer Olivia Salvadori and composer & cellist Sandro Mussida.
Exercises On Displacement 5/5 is the fifth event in the series, taking place at FOLD Club, Gillian House, Stephenson Street, London E16 4SA.
Previous iterations of Exercises On Displacement have taken place at The Heath, Cafe OTO, South London Gallery and Camden Arts Centre offsite venue in Cork Street.
The project is supported by Arts Council England, Roberto Lombardi, Inverted Audio and our Institute and produced in collaboration with Thirty Three Thirthy Three.
The evening will feature a unique collaboration between CURL and TQS collectives, presenting for the very first time a site-specific original multimedia opera piece at Fold club.
The opera in three acts, Empathy, An Ode, The Act Of Listening, will be performed live with acoustic and electronic instrumentation and video.
Capitol K and Elena Colombi will open and close the event.
Elena Colombi will also curate twelve hours live streaming in collaboration of Dutch platform SO&SO investigating Exercises On Displacement series with a programme of discussions, interviews, and exclusive contents.
Exercises On Displacement 5/5 features:
Curl (Mica Levi, Coby Sey, Brother May)
Rebecca Salvadori
Olivia Salvadori
Sandro Mussida
Capitol K
Elena Colombi
Patrick Morris
Sanne Huijsmans
Olivia Salvadori is a classically-trained soprano, an operatic solo performer, and an experimental recording artist. She performed at Garage Gallery, Rotterdam; Hong Kong City Hall; Serralves Museum, Porto; Triennale Museum, Milan; Botanical Garden Rome to name a few. She shared collaborations with artists poets musicians such as Mark Fell, Kid Millions, Nanni Balestrini, Grace Schwindt.
Rebecca Salvadori is a London-based video artist with a long experience of filming environments following a non-hierarchical/chronological layering and sequencing of audio to footage. Her film work, including ambiguous short documentaries, artists’ portraits, music videos and AV sets, is both highly personal and wilfully elusive. Throughout the years, Salvadori has accumulated an extensive video archive from which she creates assemblages. This acts as the basis for filmic portraits of moments, people and environments.
Sandro Mussida is a London based composer & cellist whose work has been released through Sony Classical, Boomkat, Tapeworms and others. He works closely with Mark Fell, London Contemporary Orchestra and many other artists and institutions. His work investigates the relationships between tradition and innovation in music, active listening, the identity of musical languages and rites. His latest works involve historical, non-equal-tempered tuning systems questioning its perception by the western, standardized ear.