Echoes/children - love letters to the future project
echoes/children is a site-specific mixed-media piece developed in collaboration with multimedia artist David Yates in late 2021 in response to the increasingly urgent environmental catastrophe of anthropogenic climate change.
Experiments with sound, movement, and projections created an immersive environment spanning spacetimes and reflecting on the reverberations from past to future of human activity. This new work with an original sound score, was developed during a time of change and uncertainty about what reverberates onto the future from the choices we make today.
Performed 2021 at The Wee Spoke Hub Edinburgh
as part of Love letters to the future projects incorporeapermeability (monica and david collaborative name) developed a site-specific impromptu performance at the Weesper Bridge re-opening the “loose seesaw” within the ever-story of resistance against urban destruction, of squatting, of moving, of making space.
@LetterVerz exhibition "the story of squatting past and present told based on the squat sign and other work by @Karim Hashem" https://www.letterverz.nl
https://www.voordekunst.nl/.../13933-letterverzet-aktie...
@Vrij Palais
September 2022
love letters to the sea
multi-disciplinary semi-structured improvisational work by Monica De Ioanni and David Yates. A meditation on daily life and themes of environmental justice. Slicing instantiations, from the kitchen window, from the sea, from bodies of water and industrial water works, into a visual and sonic collage; a story of oceans, continuua, and love, is told through movement and sound.
many thanks to Kasia & Marcin
Katharina Wroblewski
L ī l ā - The Cosmic Play
L ī l ā - The Cosmic Play aims to look at our sense of belonging and identity. The artists explore the universal theme of the ‘Cycle of life’, the continual turning of the seasons, our connection with nature and the elements, our human need to question our existence, searching for understanding and marking important events with acts of sacred ritual.
Monica De Ioanni and Marion Kenny draw inspiration from ancient traditions of music, storytelling and dance from around the world with particular reference to Bali in Indonesia where both artists have studied ancient dance theatre.
Whilst drawing inspiration from age-old traditions, the artists create original musical compositions, new choreography and retell the eternal story of Cosmic Play.
The Buried Port
Dance, music, poetry
2015-16 Live Music and Dance Performance. Part of Ungaretti Project in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh. Supported by Edinburgh City Council and Florence City Council.
ENSO LaNua
with LaNua dance company, site-specific dance piece performed in different unconventional dance spaces (Dovecote Galley, Botanic Garden). Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dance Base Edinburgh. Supported by Creative Scotland
BANTU DANBANTU
Site-specific dance performance created for “Stop Violence” exhibition at Seniwati Art Space, Singapadu (Bali, Indonesia)
“Bantu Dan Bantu”, Balinese for “help and Help” is, as the title suggests, a cry for help: a cry from a violated soul, and a cry to restore peace both within and without ourselves.
Dancers: Monica De-Ioanni, Junet Juniarta Director and Choreographer: Monica De Ioanni