Noh Inspired 1 – Masking and Enmasking: Noh Theatre as a Strategy in Contemporary Art and Performance

Simon Starling

Simon Starling was born in 1967 in Epsom, UK, and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art. He was Professor of Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt between 2003-2013 and currently lives in Copenhagen. He won the Turner Prize in 2005 and was shortlisted for the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennial in 2003 and has exhibited widely with solo exhibitions at Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France; Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany; The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Tate Britain, London, UK; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; MUMA, Melbourne, Australia and MCA, Chicago, IL, etc. At present he is developing work for forthcoming solo exhibitions in Mexico City at the Casa Luis Barragán and Museo Experimental El Eco.

Ignacio Jarquin

Ignacio Jarquin studied music and theatre in Vienna and has worked extensively in France and Germany. He recently completed two self-produced tours of UK theatres (playing over one hundred dates) with two plays about the life of the tenor Enrico Caruso and singing his repertoire. Other credits include Ten Thousand Several Doors (winner of Best Show at Brighton Festival 2006).

Andrew G Marshall

Andrew G Marshall’s previous play Caruso and the Monkey House Trial was short-listed for best new play at the Brighton Festival Fringe (2011), The Guardian called Coming Around Again ‘Impressive’. He is also the author of twelve books and his work has been translated into twenty different languages.

Michael Finnissy

Michael Finnissy is Professor of composition at the University of Southampton and a past President of the International Society for Contemporary Music. His commissions include Red Earth BBC Proms 1988, Gedächtnis-Hymne at the November Festival in the Netherlands 2011.

Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt

Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt is a Swedish performer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer, trained in Sweden, the U.S., and Japan. She is a member of Nishikawa Senrei’s studio in Kyoto, and a PhD candidate at UoL. Since 2002, she has incorporated traditional Japanese dance and theatre into her contemporary performances and films. Her most recent performance received a performing arts award by Scenkonstgalan in Sweden in 2015.

Palle Dahlstedt

Palle Dahlstedt is a Swedish composer, performer and researcher, working predominantly with keyboard instruments and advanced electronics. Based on his contemporary musical practice and on Noh studies in Kyoto, he has carried out a number of experimental collaborations with Noh musicians and dancers in Japan and Sweden. Palle is currently Professor of Art & Technology at Aalborg University and Reader in Computer-aided Creativity at University of Gothenburg.

David Toop

David Toop is a composer/musician, author, curator and Chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at University of the Arts London who has worked in many fields of music, writing, arts and theory. He has recorded Yanomami shamanism in Amazonas, appeared on Top of the Pops with the Flying Lizards, exhibited sound installations internationally, and worked with artists including John Zorn, Evan Parker, Bob Cobbing, Ivor Cutler, Akio Suzuki and Rie Nakajima. His published books include Ocean of Sound, Haunted Weather, and Sinister Resonance. His tenth solo album – Entities Inertias Faint Beings – will be released in June 2016. His opera – Star-shaped Biscuit – inspired in part by Benjamin Britten’s adaptations of Noh theatre, was performed in Aldeburgh in 2012. His next book – volume 1 of Into the Maelstrom: Improvisation, Music and the Dream of Freedom – will be published in May 2016.

Wiebke Leister

Wiebke Leister is a German artist and writer living in London. Her work investigates the nature of photographic portraiture beyond the limitations of representing individual likeness. Her project Echoes and Afterlives looks at face-masking and inversion in different performance contexts as something that equally changes gait and voice while playing with sensations of displacement and transformation. She is course leader for MA Photography at London College of Communication and a core member of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre at University of the Arts London. Weibke’s UAL research profile.