Filmic Performances from
“I dug into the soil and I grew things”.
To read the Introduction to these pieces: Click here
Velvet Curtains
Velvet Curtains is an audio-video piece about the internal lived experience of autism. Rendered mute so often in the body, its voice is pulled out by the noises existing around it from society living, building, creating in the prism of “lived space” during Lockdown.
“Velvet Curtains shows an enchanted journey into myself amongst the extra noise around me of people building, creating, living during lockdown.”
Captioned by the Artist, Elinor Rowlands
With transcription access support by Eluned Charnley
Teapot (Grief)
Teapot (Grief) is a visual sound piece rendered by the teapot’s history and story.
A feminine ritual where our grief lives in the steam.
Captioned by Elinor Rowlands (for d/Deaf audiences)
Velvet Curtains - Audio Described
Audio Described by the artist, Elinor Rowlands
Teapot (Grief) - Audio Described
Audio Described for blind and partially sighted audiences. d/Deaf audiences have the videos captioned above. Audio Described by the artist, Elinor Rowlands.
For the version with captions (for d/Deaf audiences) please go to "Teapot (Grief)" - this is an audio description for blind and partially sighted audiences.
More videos
Other Objects included a Ceramic Box, Perfumes and Shells
Shells
Captioned by Elinor Rowlands, Transcription Access Support by Eluned Charnley
What is within the skin of the ceramic box? What is within its prism? Behind its walls? In its corners? Amongst its shadows? (ER)
Shells
Collaboration between Elinor Rowlands (Visual Storyteller, vocals, edit & grade). David Russell (Guitar) and Luana Martignon (camera).
On the 5th March 2020 I began my Artist in Residence at Drake Music. After two years spent in my bedroom due to illness, disability and surgery, I was ready to meet people, participate in Labs and projects, exchange ideas and collaborate nationwide.
A week later, Lockdown began. I would spend most of my Residency in my bedroom. For my final project, I used my bedroom as a starting point.
Here, my synaesthesia expresses live storytelling and embodied memory through objects. I use sound as a way to express and recall memories and dreams held in the prisms of objects, we keep, gather and display in our rooms and about us.
As an autistic person, so often rendered as an object, this autobiographical experience during my lived experience in Lockdown immerses audiences into a new way of engaging with objects.
“I dug into the soil and I grew things.” (click here)