As part of the events organised to celebrate the reopening of the Mostyn in Llandudno Man Troi will present a site-specific performance called [in]scape on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th of May. Created by Jo Shapland in collaboration with performers Will Dickie (England) and Klaus Seewald (Austria) with musician/composer Dewi Evans (Wales), the work is a kinesthetic and aural meditation on how human presence impacts on architectural space and how architecture impacts on human presence. There will be only be two perfomances of this very special work at Mostyn.
Through movement and sound, performers will lead the audience around the Mostyn, encouraging and enhancing imaginative engagement with the new architectural spaces. Through a poetic sense of necessity, Jo Shapland’s choreography ‘sculpts’ movement and stillness, individual expressions and sensitive interactions. (in)scape is a melding of immediate, intuitive response and a site-sensitively cultivated movement and sound language. Performers embody drawings of the movement qualities of certain spaces. Performers dance qualities found in the architectural drawings of the Mostyn. A musical vocabulary is created through processing raw sound material. Processed voice, industrial sound samples from the Mostyn’s building site, and moving piano melodies, are in dialogue with live dance and singing.
The gallery has recently reopened after a major expansion project made possible by a £3m Capital Lottery Award from the Arts Council of Wales and other significant funding partners. Designed by EllisWilliams Architects the new building combines Mostyn’s original Victorian façade and top-lit galleries with a stunning new extension which includes a concrete element, known as ‘the Tube’, that provides and active an unique focal point to draw visitors into the gallery spaces.
Since 2004, dancer, choreographer and artist Jo Shapland has been visiting Mostyn as part of her [in]scape residency project where she experienced the gallery’s expansion, exploring the site-specific qualities of architectural spaces. From 7 August 25 September Mostyn will present an exhibition of objects and artefacts, made and accumulated by Jo Shapland as part of the [in]scape process.
Performances at 9pm Friday 28th and Saturday 29th May at Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales. Booking essential. Only 30 places available each night. Contact Mostyn for details.
A MAN TROI Production. Made with financial support from the Arts Council of Wales, PRSF (Steps to New Music Scheme) and the Austrian Cultural Forum. Sponsored and assisted by Mostyn, Llandudno and Chapter, Cardiff.
In Autumn 2010 (in)scape will be transposed to Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff as an installation performance.
