Performance art
Film/ Installation work
Sound Design
Cell Deletion 11
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PERFORMANCE ART
Ushara Dilrukshan with Aisling
Live performance- 30 minutes
Experimental sonic theatre inspired by a Dianne Seuss poem using feedback with Seashells.
Performed:
90mil Berlin- September 2025
Ushara Dilrukshan and Luis Gonzalez
Live performance- 30 minutes
Ritualistic Batau performance with body and sound.
Performed:
Grabowsee Berlin- August 2025
Ushara Dilrukshan
Live performance- 30 minutes
An experimental 3 act opera based on the legend of Gulia Tofana.
Act 1: Sposa son disprezzata, Vivaldi
Act 2: Lamenta Della Ninfa, Montiverde
Act 3: Se ore mior
Performed:
Grabowsee Berlin- August 2025
Ushara Dilrukshan , Maria-Cristina Onea, Christopher Roberts and Jago Oswell
Live performance- 30 minutes
A performance exploring situated sounds.
Performed:
Brompton Cemetery- July 2025
Ushara Dilrukshan & Sonnie Carlebach
Live performance- 30 minutes
A performance piece responding to a world shaped by sound inviting audiences to uncover what lies beneath the surface. In collaboration with movement artists delving into themes of mysticism and concealment.
Performed:
Brompton Cemetery- July 2025
With Eka Zharinova; Bashar Hassanieh; Damara Velazquez; Seamus Green; Tanya Rojas
Ushara Dilrukshan & Sonnie Carlebach with ensemble
Live performance- 8 hours
A continuous improvised session using instruments and found sound and spoken word.
Performed:
Brompton Cemetery- June 2025
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