Art collaborations

Amy Cutler

Amy collaborated with Sarah Bezan to explore complex environmental data to generate new real-time cinematic performances, and a permanently self-composing online film.

The finished work is an ongoing ensemble live cinema project titled SPECIES PIRACY inspired by the dark arts of de-extinction. It draws on histories of moving image projection as a form of both life and afterlife, from biological experimentation to dream palaces, seances, phantasmagoria and other cinematic manifestations.

Laura Denning

Laura collaborated with Chantal Berry and visually impaired participants from MySight York to understand how we engage with our natural environment. This included sensory walkshops, soundscapes and the use of braille as a tactile device for triggering sonic works which bring habitats through time alive to understand the rich ecoacoustic environmental history which we have lost and evoke greater emotional investment in biodiversity gain.

Julia Schauerman

Julia collaborated  with Theo Tomking to produce an acousmatic story composition - a soundscape mixed with spoken word which evokes specific places and time periods.

The final work entitled Growing Stories for Different Climates explores synergies between food growing, climate and diasporic connections amongst black and minority ethnic peoples in the UK and beyond.

May Sumbwanyambe

May collaborated with Molly Brown to produce a BBC Radio 4 play grounded in the harsh realities and opposing perspectives of wildlife trade regulations in Africa.

The final work Back Home tells the story of Noreen who returns to her native Zambia after 20 years in the UK. As the head of a wildlife charity she’s come back to give a speech about animal conservation in Africa but her family want to talk about difficult issues closer to home. Molly also went on to curate an ivory exhibition with the National Trust for Scotland and won a University of York Open Research Award for this work.