Performance art
Film/ Installation work
Sound Design
Cell Deletion 11
ABOUT
Email: usharax@gmail,com
PERFORMANCE ART
Ushara Dilrukshan
Live performance- 60 minutes
A sonic commission converting NASA star data for an hour in Bozcaada to live improvised sound using Supercollider with principles of spectogram and I-Ching numbers inspired by John Cages attempts to remove the composer from the work.
Performed:
Bozcaada Gathering- June 2025
Ushara Dilrukshan
Live performance- 20 minutes
A performance piece questioning contreversial thoughts on menstrution tiruals within hindu culture. Perfomed as a provocation for Eavesdropping festival supported by Arts Council England
Listen/ Watch
Performed:
Eavesdropping forum, Vortex Jazz club- March 2025
Ushara Dilrukshan & Sonnie Carlebach; Cell Deletion 11
Live performance- 45 minutes
Cell Deletion 11s fourth iteration of a repeated piece over 5 hours.
Together they convert shattering feedback into a chorus of drones accompanied by their own poetry and vocals.
Recorded live, channeling souls.
Underneath the ebbed dome.
Listen
Performed:
Brompton Cemetert- February 2025
Ushara Dilrukshan & Sonnie Carlebach; Cell Deletion 11
Live performance- 45 minutes
A theatrical sonic performance inspired by Malcom Lowry’s ‘Hear us O Lord, from heaven thy dwelling place’.
Tape manipulation, code, voice and instrumentation
Performed:
Yliaster at The Old Church- November 2024
Ushara Dilrukshan & Sonnie Carlebach; Cell Deletion 11
360 VR performance- 20 minutes
‘Come Inside’ centres around two unnamed characters who, through monologue and sound, delve into their innermost consternation an illusions in a dramatic synthesis of poetry and music.
Available to watch upon request.
Performed/ Recorded:
Various locations- October 2024
Ushara Dilrukshan
Live performance & Graphic Scores. Duration- 30 minutes
Installation inspired by Chruch Organ spacing performed with spoken word.
Performed:
Grabowsee Residency, Berlin August 2024
Ushara Dilrukshan with Mary & Erbse
Live performance & Graphic Scores. Duration- 30 minutes
A two-part graphical score notation inspired by the Grabowsee building and chapel structure.
Interpreted for body- voice- piano.
Interpreted for 3 voices.
Performed:
Grabowsee Residency, Berlin August 2024
Ushara Dilrukshan & Sonnie Carlebach
(Cell Deletion 11)
Live performance. Duration- 30 minutes
A 5 act thespian noise opera featuring tape loops, monologue and metal sculpture intrumentation,.
1. By the Light of the Moon.
2. A Vengeful Bug.
3. Hunted.
4. Apathy in Blue.
5. Once a Boy Always a Tree.
Performed:
RCA Garden House
Live performance. Duration 8 minutes
A performance exploring temporality and impermancne using poetry, experimental cello, light and choreography.
Performed:
Silk St Theatre- March 2024
RCA Garden House- July 2024
HEAVY IS THE HEAD
Ah is it not synonymous to life itself,
Like a river that eternally ebbs and flows,
Like sands of time which irreversibly sheds,
Through crooks and creeks,
Of dunes and peaks,
With turbulence of life built like intrinsic webs,
But somewhere amongst the delicate weeps,
Lies life’s antique botiques.
Maybe that’s the beauty we seek.
Ah is it not synonymous to life itself,
Like a river that eternally ebbs and flows,
Like sands of time which irreversibly sheds,
Through crooks and creeks,
Of dunes and peaks,
With turbulence of life built like intrinsic webs,
But somewhere amongst the delicate weeps,
Lies life’s antique botiques.
Maybe that’s the beauty we seek.