TURBULENCE

New York-based artist/choreographer Barnett Cohen brings tactics of practice to Ormside for its UK debut. Made in collaboration with London-based sound artist and composer Shamica Ruddock and dancer Sally Butin, the piece is a solo for Butin, choreographed by Cohen and sounded by Ruddock, that works the tension between withholding and reveal, pleasure and discord, space and place. Underscored by nightlife stimuli, it pushes the body through non-stop/stop motion into a performance of excess, driven by the erotics of force and aggression. The evening sets the performance alongside two live sound artists. Hannan Jones, an artist of Algerian and Welsh origin raised on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja and now based between Glasgow and Marseille. Jones’ sound is built on free improvisation with electronics, cassette archives and sampling, used to reclaim parallel histories and reimagine the connections between them, swelling into turbulence and fractured noise. Berlin-based artist, composer and vocalist b1unt b1ade moves between vulnerability and force, weaving industrial textures, choral resonance and drone into atmospheric soundscapes that flicker between the intimate and the monumental.