Testero Utero Go! Litter Womb - by Natasha Bourke

in association with Causeway Coast Maritime Heritage Group

Presented by: Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company

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0	DERRY: Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company
P	Wednesday 22nd September, 2021
N	7:45pm

Event information

Performance approximately 1 hour.

Arrive at 7.30pm for estimated 7.45pm performance time. Start time will depend on tide levels.

LOCATION
***This event is NOT at Echo Echo Studios!***
Performance at Culmore Point at the slipway into River Foyle.

PARKING
Free parking for pre-booked ticket-holders at Culmore Community Hub (formerly Victoria Hall). Car Park will close shortly after performance. Performance location is 5-minute walk along Culmore Park Road. Please do not park along Culmore Point Road.

ACCESSIBLE PARKING
4 x accessible parking spaces (free) at Culmore Yacht Club available to pre-booked ticket-holders. Please email info@echoechodance.com with name and car reg to pre-book an accessible space. First come first served basis.

GENERAL GUIDANCE
Waterproof clothing advised.
Please follow stewards guidance.

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Testero Utero Go! Litter Womb is a site-specific performance in-progress, reflecting on existential themes, in increasingly changing times. Presented outdoors between dusk and nightfall, there is a human and then a ‘separate being’ inside a large transparent ball on a boat, blindly navigating from day to night, between land and water mass. The boat tugs two smaller balls containing shredded single-use plastics. The work attempts to visually summarise the safety, isolation and uncertainty experienced, as humans increasingly exist in bubbles. The artist is always mindful of ancient waterways, linking sites to their earlier states with a deepening interest in the anatomical/environmental containment of water and its role vibrating through a body or landscape. T.U.G! Litter Womb is part of an ambitious new water-based performance vision in-development with support of the Arts Council, Firkin Crane, Cork City Council and Cork Midsummer Festival

Natasha Bourke is a Cork-based interdisciplinary artist of Irish/Dutch descent with a fine art and extensive movement background. Her practice embraces performance, lens-based media, installation, archive, drawing and sound. Bourke has presented live/filmic/installation work, solo and collaboratively, in events across Ireland/Europe, since 2007. The artist’s life and roots underpin all her work contemplating themes of self and society and continually investigating new ways to refine the different strands of her practice into a unique coherent poetic language.

We are very happy to be collaborating with the Causeway Coast Maritime Heritage Group who will be bringing the Colmcille Currach boat to be part of Natasha’s performance on 22nd September. The Colmcille Currach and crew will be on the River Foyle on 21st and 22nd September - look out for them!

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COVID-19
Please support us to maintain a healthy and safe environment for everyone involved by following all Covid-19 best hygiene practice. All Echo Echo Festival events are risk assessed and public health and safety is our top priority so please adhere to guidance provided by Festival staff and stewards. This event will be outdoors so masks are not compulsory however social distancing is advised. Thank you!