Simon Atkinson and Kerry Francksen present their new work at Sound/Image 2025 festival

Simon Atkinson and Kerry Francksen presented their new work, 'Betwixt and Between II', at this month's Sound/Image 2025 festival hosted by University of Greenwich. The piece is for live movement, moving image and multi-channel electroacoustic music, and was made in response to the festival's 'reflecting forwards' call.

This exposition presented the next iteration of the artists' long-standing explorations into the delicate and complex relationships between live-digital dance performance and acousmatic sound. Their original 'Betwixt and Between' piece is now ten years old, however many of that work's underlying concepts still have resonance today: ideas of intimacy, fragility, connection and imagination. In an increasingly technologized world, an opportunity to reconnect with bodies, images and sound reflectively and deliberately feels significant. Challenging some of the normative traditions of combining movement, media and music, this interactive and intuitive work presents bodies, media and musical sound simultaneously as mutual sensuous entities.

Intermedial perspectives: Practice – Technology – Pedagogy

Troika Ranch — Loop Diver

Jointly hosted by Intermediality & Performance research group (I&Prg) and Music, Technology & Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC) at De Montfort University

2nd July 2013, 10.00 – 16.00 De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH

Key Note speaker: Mark Coniglio (Troika Ranch / Isadora creator)

This inaugural symposium brings together scholars and practitioners to reflect on the nature of intermediality within performance practice, creativity and pedagogies from a range of art practices and disciplines. Building on established perspectives and discourses surrounding notions of ‘intermediality’ this symposium seeks to focus on and interrogate further, the implications of making intermedial performance in what is a swiftly developing milieu.

There is now a substantial collection of work that encompasses screen based installation art, performance and interactive media and applications of intermedial practices in time-based theatre arts. However, whilst there has been a flurry of interest, particularly in the past decade, precedents in the field indicate that there is still scope for more rigorous engagement with how these new ‘forms’ and ‘relations’ from the perspective of the practitioner and educator are having an impact on the practice of making art. This symposium aims to open up further ideas relating to the current impact of ‘intermediality’ on the performing arts and pedagogy.

Other presenters include: Prof. Leigh Landy, Dr. Bret Battey, Kerry Francksen, Marie Fitzpatrick, Dr. Craig Vear, Sally Doughty, Mark Crossley, Jill Cowley and Jo Scott.

For further information or to reserve a place at the symposium please contact: cvear@dmu.ac.uk