Far from Somewhere

Proposal for sonic sculpture work

Lucinda Dayhew's image material

Previous work examples 

Four on the Floor (Work Work Work Work)

Installation at HPFA Fine Arts Berlin, 2017:

This is an example of an installation of mine using mixed media and sonic elements. In the work I explore children's play and adults' play and similarities in the materials (such as vinyl, latex) used in children's sports and learning institutions and adult's BDSM and fetish equipment. It is also a meditation on psychological categorisation and our 'divided selves' and the differences in the way we present ourselves in public and private, at work and at play, as well as the desexualisation of women post motherhood in contemporary societies. 

———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oops, Hoops

A collaboration with Dafna Maimon. Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin 2018

Text on Oops, Hoops (H. Freund). ‘For Kreuzberg Pavillon’s new episode of IS IT A GAME? Lucinda Dayhew created a setting based on a collaborative live action play. While in escape games players have to work quickly as a team to solve riddles or puzzles in order to crack the codes to get out of the room, Dayhew’s setting offers the players a room reflecting themselves with repetitive loops, knots and twists.

The first part of Oops, Hoops on October 12th 2018 will introduce the setting of the play. Repetitive loops will be reinforced both sonically and via visual loop pattern motifs in the installation/setting across three rooms : The Void, The Green Room and Figure 8.

In the second part on October 19th 2018, Dafna Maimon will activate the setting with the game “Oops, Hoops”, developed specifically for - and turning the space into - a somewhat functioning escape room. In this doughnut like universe a cast of performers stuck in awkward behavioral loops and their own solipsist realities, will provide the audience with verbal clues and choreographies allowing for “jumping through hoops” as a form of dysfunctional collective escape entertainment.’

Concept: Dayhew and Maimon.

Practice Room

Installation at Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany 2016

**************************************************************************

This is another example of an installation where I conceived music performances to be an integral element of the work, in a simliar manner to the work It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye which I propose to make with this grant.

                                                                                  **************************************************************************

Practice Room is a spatial installation that is open to be used by visitors, guests/bands and the »flatmates« (other artists in the exhibition). They can convene and try out and play (with) altered instruments. Lucinda Dayhew invites us to collective rehearsals. A practice room is usually secluded, it is not a public space. Songs and melodies are not final, the musicians have no audience yet. Dayhew allows us to experience the processes of collective music making, the harmonies and disharmonies from inside the rehearsal space – accessible to the »flatmates«, visitors and people passing by. Over the course of the exhibition she invites different musicians to rehearse in her Practice Room. These rehearsals take place at different times during the day and night, they are visible and audible from the outside, but they are not public concerts. At the opening Dayhew’s Band Luci Lippard will, however, rehearse six versions of Still Life II in public.

Text: Kathrin Pohlmann & Julia Zieger - curators of Vacancies! as part of Post Otherness Wedding  - a series of exhibitions curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen & Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung at Galerie Wedding (state gallery) Berlin.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Documentation of my performance duo Luci Lippard in collaboration with Hanne Lippard.

Short biography:

Luci Lippard is a performance band formed in Berlin in spring 2014 by artists Lucinda Dayhew and Hanne Lippard. Using drums, voice, synths and songs, the duo make noise out of poetry.