Nastassja Simensky

Rocks are for throwing

Video / 14:23 mins

ABOUT THE WORK

Refuse to keep a comfortable distance

Quarry...Kwarri...Quarrelle...Quarrel

To question
Call to account
Challenge
To find fault with
Rebuke
To object
To raise stones
A blunt weapon

A new score was composed for this moving image work. The recording was captured live from the performance in a quarry on the outskirts of Bristol.


Credits:
Producer and director – Nastassja Simensky
Composer – William Frampton
Soprano – Anna Harrison
Alto – Sophie Proctor
Tenor – Sam Knock
Bass – David Cane
Saxophone – Rob Corrin
Field recording (choir) – Golden Cage Media
Voice actors – Chris Timms, Sophia Simensky and Chipo Kureya
Costume design – Sophia Simensky and Nastassja Simensky

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nastassja Simensky currently works between Essex and Nottingham. Selected residencies and commissions include SHERDS: Five Verses on Six Sacks of Earth at Nottingham Contemporary (2020); Zu Gast bei den KunstVereinenRuhr, Urbane Kunst Ruhr (2019); Brightspot, Diaspore Project Space (2018); Material Culture Unearthed, In-situ Brierfield (2018); Rocks are for Throwing (2017); Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow (2017), Estuary Festival 2016: Points of Departure, Tilbury Cruise Terminal (2016); Fictive Dreams, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore (2016).

Credits:
Artist photo by Roland Baege