Join Stephanie Lamprea and Anne Kjær across Speaking Towards One Another exhibition programme to experience short and intimate 15 mins afternoon performances
Event Details
Speaking Towards One Another performance and exhibition programme will feature daily short afternoon drop-in performances in Inspace. These will include a 15min dance performance by Anne Kjær (Fri & Mon) and a 15min vocal performance by Stephanie Lamprea (Wed & Thurs).
Please note that there will be no performances over the weekend.
Dates: Fri 23rd – Thurs 28th May (no performances on Sat & Sun)
Time: 1pm daily | Free/Drop-in
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Performers
Stephanie Lamprea
Colombian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea is an architect of new sounds and expressions as a performer, recitalist, curator, composer, and improviser, specializing in contemporary-classical repertoire. Trained as an operatic coloratura, Stephanie uses her voice as a mechanism of avant-garde performance art, creating “maniacal shifts of vocal production and character… like an icepick through the skull” (composer Jason Eckardt). She has been praised by Opera News Magazine for “her iconoclasm and fearless commitment to new sounds” and for her “impressive display of extended vocal techniques, in the honorable tradition of such forward-looking artists as Bethany Beardslee, Cathy Berberian and Joan La Barbara.” Her work has been described as “stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous…” by The Observer, “divinely deranged” by the Herald Scotland, and that she “sings so expressively and slowly with ever louder and higher-pitched voice, that the inclined listener [has] shivers down their back and tension flows into the last row.” (Halberstadt.de) She has performed as a soloist at Roulette Intermedium (New York City), Constellation Chicago, Sound Scotland, Kings Place (London), Southbank Centre (London), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the National Concert Hall (Dublin), the Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), the Hidden Door Festival (Edinburgh), and the Casa da Música (Porto). She has collaborated with leading new music ensembles and bands including the Riot Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, the City of London Sinfonia, Sō Percussion, and Post Coal Prom Queen.
An established multidisciplinary artist, Stephanie has collaborated as a soprano and composer with contemporary artist Jesse Jones to co-create Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon, a film installation presented at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in partnership with the National Gallery in London. Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon received a five-star rating from The Observer, noting the “mesmerising film… The sound (and vision) is stunning, harrowing, agonising, sonorous and then garbled, stoppered, and running, as it seems, backwards.” Stephanie has collaborated with video artist and photographer Oana Stanciu and composer Tom W. Green to co-create Anthropocenic Garden, a multidisciplinary exhibition for film, music, and dance, commissioned by and presented at the Hidden Door Festival. She has also collaborated with author and activist Jessica Gaitán Johannesson and sound artist Alistair MacDonald to co-create Soroche, a work for music, spoken voice, and film, commissioned by and presented at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. A prolific recording artist, Stephanie released albums Quaking Aspen, Georges Aperghis’ 14 Récitations, and Don’t Add to Heartache, to international critical acclaim. Quaking Aspen was hailed by PopMatters.com as “a bold artistic statement that’s exciting and innovative… a magical, intense, and deeply satisfying journey.” 14 Récitations was described as a “tour-de-force… sportive vocal adventure of impressive proportions,” (Concerti.de), “performance art of the highest caliber,” (PopMatters.com), and a record in which “virtuosity is complemented by total commitment and vivid imagination.” (Bandcamp.com) Don’t Add to Heartache was celebrated as “an impassioned exploration of sound, space, and the relationship between nature and humanity… a fiercely inventive body of work that urges listeners to consider their relationship with nature in an increasingly artificial world.”
Anne Kjær
Anne Kjær is a transdisciplinary artist making work, often collaboratively, across multiple fields and mediums, including live performance, sound composition, film, installation, and site-specific art. Anne’s work is inquisitive about the human condition, multi-sensorial, immersive, emotionally delicate, sonically dense, and informed by her own neurodivergence. At the centre of her practice is the body; its sensory apparatus; movements; stories; and its desire and capacity for communication and connection. Coming from a background in acting and theatre, Anne developed an interest in physical theatre and contemporary dance. As someone without formal training in dance, her choreographic approach is grounded in contemporary somatic practices. Her work accentuates connecting the internal to the external; improvisation; awakening the imagination; expanding and refining the quality and texture of movement; longevity; and discovering pleasure and power in playful effort. Anne seeks inspiration from the movement language of Gaga, the movement research of Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek (Fighting Monkey), Body Weather training (Min Tanaka), Contact Improvisation, and other contemporary movement practices.
Anne’s compositional approach is minimalist; centred around building multi-layered structures of electro-acoustic and live sounds. She uses field recordings, electronically processed sounds, and live and recorded vocals to create works that evoke sensual imagery and contemplation. Anne has made work for intimate headphone experiences as well as multi-channel, amplified systems. In her role as collaborator and facilitator Anne is committed to an ethics of care: to being attentive and responsive towards the needs of others; to awaken to the teachings that others may offer her; to being aware of her influence and responsibility; to the cultivation of empathy for all and adaptability in her means of communication. Anne’s definition of care is an amalgamation of the work of Joan Tronto, Berenice Fischer, Virginia Held, and adrienne maree-brown: Care is the work we do to maintain, recover, nurture, and entreasure the well-being in ourselves, each other, and the world, so that we may live in it as best as possible. Originally from Copenhagen and now based in Glasgow, Anne graduated from the Contemporary Performance Practice programme at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2023.