Event overview
Noise of the Past - a poetic journey of war, memory and dialogue through two inter-related works.
Introduction by Nirmal Puwar, Co-Director of Methods Lab, Goldsmiths, University of London
Post-colonial War Requiem (excerpt from live performance) - Composed by Francis Silkstone, AHRC Fellow, Dept of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London
Unravelling (screening) Directed by Kuldip Powar (Poet/Screenwriter), with original score by Nitin Sawhney
Q&A with Kuldip Powar, Francis Silkstone, Nirmal Puwar & Sanjay Sharma Noise of the Past project (principally funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council) presents two commissions produced from a creative call-and-response method to cast a different light on war, memory and the art of dialogue. Project Directors: Dr Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, Univ. of London) & Dr Sanjay Sharma (Brunel University).
Unravelling (2008, 17 mins) is the result of a unique film-making process, creatively working with poetry, archive materials, visual art and music. Internationally acclaimed Nitin Sawhney composed a new score in response to an original inter-generational poetic dialogue in Urdu between Sawarn Singh, a WWII Indian soldier who fought for the British in Burma, the Middle East and Africa, before moving to the UK, and his grandson, Kuldip Powar. Through poetic motifs a sensory experience emerges, both evocative and haunting, inviting us to explore our own ambivalences towards collective and personal stories of war.
Post-Colonial War Requiem (2008) also drew upon the inter-generational poetic dialogue as the source of inspiration for Francis Silkstone, who produced a new composition performed with moving musicians. Benjamin Britten's original War Requiem inaugurated the newly-built Coventry Cathedral in 1962, offering Remembrance without militarism. Though consciously inclusive, it did not reference the contributions of the (former) colonies.
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Dates & times
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29 Oct 2010 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm |
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