Performance Art
Film/ Installation work
Sound Design
CELL DELETION 11
Email: usharax@gmail,com
Performance Art
Film/ Installation work
Sound Design
CELL DELETION 11
Email: usharax@gmail,com
PERFORMANCE ART
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.
With Niko Raic & Sonnie Carlebach
13/06/2024
Live performance. Duration 30 minutes.
The given light is brief, emphatic. That is a given.
Thirty minutes of light, rested from the chapels dome, will engrave the cyanotype canvas.
Meantime, we will cast the first and last shadows, keeping what remains from the petrified sun.
14/06/2024
Live performance. Duration 4 hours
.
The given light is brief, emphatic. That is a given.
Interactions and moments of passing, caught in tape, framed in audible time. Loops are fed and grown building throughout the day.
Performed:
Brompton Cemetary
With Jocelyn Brett
Live performance. 45 minutes.
A durational performance piece amplfying sounds of desperation when caught in stasis. Commissioned for Doozy magazine, using Cello, Live contact floor and movement.
Performed:
Bath Fringe- May 2024,
Strange Brew, Bristol, Doozy Magazine- January 2024
LIMBO
Neither here nor there,
Stitched between the veils of existence,
The air, thick with the melodies forsaken,
A symphony of dissonance,
Time, the erratic dancer,
Wove threads of perpetual uncertainty.
Inhabitants of this sphere,
Like phantoms of shared delusion,
Together we toiled beneath skies draped in surreal hues,
Each drop of swear a sacrament to the promise of reprieve.
Our labour a cosmic exchange as we readied our nurtured soil for trade,
Watering passage to the next astral sanctuary.
Planet of limbo caught in the eternal flux,
Harboured both the departure and arrival of souls ensnared in the transcendental choreography of transience.
Neither here nor there,
Stitched between the veils of existence,
The air, thick with the melodies forsaken,
A symphony of dissonance,
Time, the erratic dancer,
Wove threads of perpetual uncertainty.
Inhabitants of this sphere,
Like phantoms of shared delusion,
Together we toiled beneath skies draped in surreal hues,
Each drop of swear a sacrament to the promise of reprieve.
Our labour a cosmic exchange as we readied our nurtured soil for trade,
Watering passage to the next astral sanctuary.
Planet of limbo caught in the eternal flux,
Harboured both the departure and arrival of souls ensnared in the transcendental choreography of transience.
With Nicola Adilman & Geogie Huxley
Live performance. 30 minutes.
A dance and visual art performance, delving into the realms of storytelling, visual imagery, and the expressive medium of movement inspired by life drawing and modelling.
Performed:
Harrow Art Centre, Boiler Fest- August 2024,
The Place, London, Resolution Festival- January 2024
Live performance. Duration 45 minutes
Sound by Cell Deletion 11
Performance piece questioning Hindu menstruation rituals and female rights within this.
Performed:
Strange Brew, Bristol, Doozy Magazine- January 2024
POOJA
Within the depth of the red,
The demons rest,
The temple grounds must stay pure and clean,
The womb space must stay pure and clean,
Swami banished me from the temple grounds,
He said I am impure,
My purity would return in X days,
Swami said the village must know I bleed,
They rang the bells of blood,
They sung the songs of menstruation,
Swami said I am ready,
The men came and laid saris at my feet,
They laid jewellery and begged at my knees,
Swami banished me from the temple grounds,
He said I am impure
My purity would return in X days,
My flow becomes tethys,
My purity resides within me,
From bones to ash to blood,
To each holy drip of menstruation,
Within and without menstruation,
I am pure,
But Swami sees me as impure.
Within the depth of the red,
The demons rest,
The temple grounds must stay pure and clean,
The womb space must stay pure and clean,
Swami banished me from the temple grounds,
He said I am impure,
My purity would return in X days,
Swami said the village must know I bleed,
They rang the bells of blood,
They sung the songs of menstruation,
Swami said I am ready,
The men came and laid saris at my feet,
They laid jewellery and begged at my knees,
Swami banished me from the temple grounds,
He said I am impure
My purity would return in X days,
My flow becomes tethys,
My purity resides within me,
From bones to ash to blood,
To each holy drip of menstruation,
Within and without menstruation,
I am pure,
But Swami sees me as impure.
With Hat Fidkin & Gabriel Dubin
Live performance. 45 minutes.
Exploring the circularity of feminine pain through exhuming the womb.
Interact sculpture work with contact mics and VCV rack.
Performed:
Walcot Chapel- August 2023
FILM/ AV INSTALLATION WORK
Handbound book. Video work. 15 minutes.
A publication of 100 instruction scores inspired by hindu rituals, fluxes movement and spiritual healing, combined to overcome trauma.
Video work depicts intepretations of the instruction scores, combined with experimental encoded audio utilisng collated samples.
Performed:
RCA, Garden House- July 2024