Member Profile
Name
Nicola Singh (aka NicolaSingh)
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About me
Region:
North East
Artforms
Performance, Live Art, Experimental Theatre, Installation, Interdisciplinary, Photography, Visual Art, Writing/Text, Poetry /Spoken word, Sound /Sonic art, Experimental music, Site Specific, Socially engaged practice.
Occupation
Practising Artist/Practitioner, Arts administrator/Co-ordinator/project manager, Curator, Writer.
Statement
Artist Statement
Nicola Singh is a solo and collaborative artist, musician and curator. With an interdisciplinary approach to performance, devising and research methodologies, her practice integrates modes of live and sonic art and contemporary music composition and performance. Experimentation with site, relationship between voice and body, literary appropriation, sonic landscape/soundscape, sound design and durational performance are central.
Biography
Qualifications: MA Curation (Sunderland University, present), 2:1 BA Hons Music Performance/Visual Arts Practice (Dartington College of Arts 2008)
Artist/Performer/Musician: Dedicated to Harlequin (Brighton Fringe Festival 2010; The Foundry, London 2010; Stoke Newington International Airport 2010), That In There: Anthropoid Theatre (Aberstwyth Arts Centre 2010), I Cannot Heave My Heart (Bristol Live Art Open Platform, Bristol Arnolfini 2010; Platform NE 2009), Fecund Lunacy (Whitechapel Art Gallery 2009), Wardrobes, Chests and Drawers (Wunderbar Festival 2009), Happy Myth 1 _ Switch Performance Company (Theatreworks 2009), Get Out Of My House (Artist Residency, Woodbine Allotment 2009), The Workshop 120 (The People Show Theatre Company 2009), Troilus and Criseyde (Resistance Gallery 2009; Stratford Circus 2009), Exposure (Southwark Playhouse 2009; Dartington College of Arts Graduate Festival 2009); That In There: Anthropoid Theatre (Battersea Arts Centre Graduate Festival 2009; Camden’s Peoples Theatre 2009; Dartington College of Arts Graduate Festival 2009), Walking Performance _ Wrights and Sites (Teignbridge, Devon 2008)
Vocal Director: Alcestis, a version by Ted Hughes (Kingston University Performance MA at The Rose Theatre, 2010), Theatre In A Car (The London Bridge Theatre Festival 2009)
Workshop Leader: Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, Southwark Playhouse Youth Theatre
Curator: First In Three (Wunderbar Festival 2009/Northern Stage Theatre), Secrets Performance Platform (Southwark Playhouse)
Producer/Coordinator: Wunderbar Festival 2011 Coordinator (Wundberbar Festival), DIY Projects (Live Art Development Agency/Wunderbar Festival), AV 10: Energy (Audio Visual Arts North East), Joshua Sofaer’s ‘Tours of People’s Home’ (Wunderbar Festival 2009), Hamstrung (Switch Performance Company)
Artist Practitioner: New Work Network Advisory Panel Member, BATLIC Art Gallery Artist Mentee
Opportunities
Bursary Opportunity_Live Theatre/The Empty Space
Deadline: 4/12/2009
16/11/2009 14:56:55
Live Theatre, Newcastle’s new writing theatre company, in collaboration with The Empty Space, North East England’s theatre development agency, is offering two bursaries of £1000 each to emerging artists to be involved in Live’s New Writing Festival i...
'First in Three' Northern Stage and Wunderbar Festival
Deadline: 9/10/2009
10/9/2009 12:24:21
Northern Stage has invited Wunderbar Festival to bring its take on performance to ‘First In Three,’ the regular opportunity for regional artists to show work in progress and gain critical feedback from the audience at Northern Stage.
The n...
Projects
Events
AV FESTIVAL 10: ENERGY
05/03/2010 - 14/03/2010
Category: Performance
AV FESTIVAL 10: ENERGY Various venues across Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Middlesbrough 5 - 14 March 2010 www.avfestival.co.uk AV Festival 10 is the biennial international festival of electronic arts. This year the curatorial theme is en...
Step into drawers, chests and wardrobes with Nicola Singh
06/11/2009 - 15/11/2009
Category: Performance
Open the door to her home, her bedroom, her wardrobe and experience a collection of daydreams and memories in a one-to-one encounter with Nicola Singh. Enter a space filled with fragments of a remembered childhood as she invites you to whisper throug...
