Name: ReRoot
Start: 2024-03-22T11:30:00Z
Location: Barnaslingan Wood

ReRoot

Robert Coleman

a hybrid soundwalk performance created by composer and sound artist Robert Coleman and dancer and choreographer Laura Sarah Dowdall

Barnaslingan Wood

Join the artists for a live soundwalk in Barnaslingan forest. You will be guided through the forest for 75 minutes, exploring the interconnectedness of the sounds of nature. ReRoot is a hybrid soundwalk performance created by composer and sound artist Robert Coleman and dance artist Laura Sarah Dowdall for Barnaslingan Wood. It explores the interaction of sound and touch to re-connect with the forest and our bodies and brings our relationship with the natural world into question. This experience seeks to deepen and help renew our relationship with nature and in doing so, allows us to challenge the existing conditions which have brought us into this climate and biodiversity crisis.Using a variety of recording techniques around the forest including contact microphones (microphones which sense audio vibrations through solid objects) and geophones (microphones which sense seismic waves in the earth) Robert has recorded sounds typically inaudible to the human ear opening us up to a new perspective on the living world around us. This listening is deeply rooted in our tactile connection with the eco-system of the Woods, complemented by Laura’s practice in dance, spoken word and somatic sensing, we will explore the moments when touch becomes sound, and sound becomes touch. ReRoot is part of Nature and Place, an initiative of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office. It is supported by Coillte and the Dublin Mountains Partnership. <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/1j3bsX4N4M9xGnTE7" title="https://maps.app.goo.gl/1j3bsX4N4M9xGnTE7" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Meeting Point: Barnaslingan Wood Car Park</a><ul><li>Please bring headphones and a smartphone. Parts of this walk will feature audio hosted on the Echoes app which you will need to download. Full information and links will be sent to you in advance of the event. Technical assistance will be available on-site before the beginning of the walk. Please get in touch if you do not have access to headphones and a smartphone.</li><li>Please arrive 15 minutes before the event start time. This is to ensure Echoes app and headphones is working correctly for all participants.</li><li>The walk is completely outdoors, and the route involves crossing uneven ground and so please wear appropriate footwear and clothing.</li><li>Please note that ReRoot is not suitable for small children or anyone who is mobility impaired.</li><li>This experience will include aspects of audience participation</li><li>The duration of the walk will be approximately 75 minutes.</li><li>Booking is essential for all participants. As places are limited, please only reserve a ticket if you will be present for the event. Tickets are free.</li></ul> Please note for attendees at the 11:30am event on 23rd March: You will be asked to sign a consent form for photographs to be taken to record and document the event. However, there is no obligation to have your photo taken as part of the walk. if you have any questions about this in advance, please email <a href="mailto:arts@dlrcoco.ie" title="mailto:arts@dlrcoco.ie" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">arts@dlrcoco.ie</a> Composer Robert Coleman’s current work draws from numerous fields such as soundscape studies, site-specific art, field recording, and community and participatory arts.In 2021 Robert began an interdisciplinary PhD in Ecological Sound Art supervised by experts from both biological science and creative sound backgrounds at Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University Belfast.In 2023 he founded the School of Wild Listening, a platform for the discussion and dissemination of ecological sound art. Its aim is to promote an understanding of the living world and the current challenges we face through open and accessible listening and creative sound events. The 2023 programme has included listening group session with guest artists David Stalling, Óscar Mascareñas. Karen Power, the Water Project, Pablo Sanz and also featured at the Wild Minds Festival in Fenit Co Kerry.In 2023 he presented live soundwalks on-site at both the Vale of Clara in Wicklow and the Glas-na-Bradan Wood (featuring HIVE vocal Choir) in the Belfast Hills after an onsite research period of 18 months.He has been commissioned by Crash Ensemble and New Music Dublin, the National Concert Hall Dublin, Irish National Opera, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Tallaght Community Arts, violinist Larissa O’Grady and others.Robert is a founding member and performer with Dublin based experimental music group Kirkos. As a performer he has explored experimental repertoire from Irish and international artists, performing at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2023, Hugh Lane Gallery Sundays at Noon series in 2023 and 2024, the Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College in 2023, Dublin Fringe 2021, New Music Dublin 2017, Kirkos: Fluxfest, Jennifer Walshe’s Aisteach, Kirkos: Body Noise Work and also in collaboration with composer/performer Andy Ingamells and Tonnta amongst others. He is also a member of QUBe, an improvised and experimental music ensemble based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast and has been performing with them since 2022 in a number of venues across Belfast.<a href="https://www.robertcolemancomposer.com/" title="https://www.robertcolemancomposer.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.robertcolemancomposer.com</a>Instagram- @robertjwcoleman @school_of_wild_listening Laura Sarah Dowdall is a dance artist creating performance that is experiential, immersive and permeable to audience interaction. Her practice and choreography focus on researching the performative body in its expanded, transformative, political and imaginative states, breaking boundaries of hierarchy and expectation, and offering experiences of heightened personal and social awareness.In 2023, Laura was selected as inaugural artist in residence at the Dun Laoghaire Baths Artist Studios. Her research focused on our human relationship to the sea, our physiological water make-up, socio-cultural rites and rituals connected to water, and looking at the human body as another body of water in need of respect, care and conservation. She collaborated with local communities offering movement workshops, interactive talks, sea-inspired gatherings, dance dialogues and performances.During the pandemic, Laura took her research outdoors exploring embodied ecological connection to natural environments. From which she developed the working practice and performance ‘embodied nature’, which she presented at Biosphere Festival in 2021. This work focuses on a return to a more organic state, tuning-in to the earth of our bones, dropping embellishment, extra and excess, nature-led, with the senses as guide and instinct as language, impact is minimal.Laura is a socially-engaged artist working collaboratively with people who are blind and deafblind to support awareness of access and inclusion. She founded Running Blind Dance in 2015, focused on researching and developing new ways to make dance and its performance accessible to people with vision-loss. Over the years she has collaborated with Anne Sullivan Centre for the Deafblind, National Council for the Blind, Vision Sports and Fighting Blindness. She has presented her work in inclusive dance at Vision 2020 Global Conference, MoveMe! Dance Festival in the Netherlands and taught at the first Inclusive Dance training in Ireland in 2023.Laura has performed her work in theatres, galleries and festivals across Ireland, in Germany, France, the Netherlands and the USA.Dance/Choreography- <a href="http://www.laurasarahdowdall.wixsite.com/dancer" title="http://www.laurasarahdowdall.wixsite.com/dancer" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.laurasarahdowdall.wixsite.com/dancer</a>Inclusive Dance - <a href="http://www.runningblind.ie/" title="http://www.runningblind.ie/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.runningblind.ie</a>Somatic Practice - <a href="http://www.healingyoga.ie/" title="http://www.healingyoga.ie/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.healingyoga.ie</a>Instagram/Facebook- @laurasarahdowdall @healingyogasoma

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