On Translucency: Live essay performance by Himali Singh Soin

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Alserkal Arts Foundation presents On Translucency, a performance by Himali Singh Soin, in partnership with Delfina Foundation.

Westminster Chapel

On Translucency Himali Singh Soin accompanied by David Soin Tappeser and Byron Wallen On Translucency is a manifesto that defies allegiance to forms of violence, and instead calls for pliable protections and unpinpointable spaces. It responds to our polarised world by suggesting a more enmeshed view of life, a latticed view away from the alienation of modernity, towards a natural sensorium. Accompanied by sounds from home-made instruments salvaged from evaporated salt flats in the UAE, an experiment in the music of iridescence. Developed during Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser’s residency at the Alserkal Arts Foundation in Dubai in Spring 2024, this live essay performance now circles back to London. Date: Saturday, October 12, 2024 Time: 12PM Venue: Westminster Chapel, Buckingham GateSW1 6BS, London Presented by Alserkal Arts Foundation in partnership with Delfina Foundation. Produced by Holly Shuttleworth, HS Studio. Note: Booking is advised, as spaces are limited. Doors open at 11:45 and seating will be on a first come, first serve basis until we reach capacity, therefore latecomers cannot be guaranteed entry. Please arrive on time, and plan to stay for the full duration, about 45-60 minutes, to ensure that everyone has the best experience. _____ About the Artists Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist currently who works between New Delhi and London. Singh Soin's interdisciplinary work focuses on the nature of identity, environmental issues, and the notion of deep time. She works across film, spoken word, performance, epistolary poetry, ceramics, music, and embroidery, which allows her to interweave complex concepts and narratives together. David Soin Tappeser is a drummer, composer and performance artist based between London and New Delhi. His practice explores socio-eco-spiritual-tempo-somatic dimensions of sound. His performances and compositions use rhythm to unearth, manipulate, and deconstruct linear perceptions of time, interdependence, and alterity. They hint at intercultural entanglements, parallel histories, and extra-human frames of reference while thinking about environmental destruction and sociopolitical fissures. Byron Wallen was born in July 1969 in London, England while the Apollo 11 crew were on their way to the moon. Widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, he is constantly travelling the world recording, teaching and performing. He has visited East Africa, Morocco, Nigeria, Indonesia and Belize (his parents' homeland). On tour Wallen often works with local musicians, developing new ideas for his performances and compositions. In 1992, Wallen formed Sound Advice touring the UK and playing in Syria in 1996 and the Czech Republic in 1997. The band also appeared at the North Sea Jazz Festival, gaining critical and audience acclaim. In 1995 Wallen played in South Africa, recording with Airto Moreira and Moses Moseleku. A documentary film, Travelling, traces his 1998 trip to Uganda. In 2001 he appeared at the Harare Jazz festival in Zimbabwe and at South Africa's ARTS Alive Earth Summit festival in 2002.

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