Art Night: Philomène Pirecki

Recorded at the newly launched 180 Studios at 180 The Strand and offsite locations, the commission is set in a time where human touch is no longer allowed, exploring the ephemerality of intense sensory states.

It is a journey into a spring/summer ritual, an awakening of the senses through the conduits of the stinging nettle (urtica dioica), for its properties as both an irritant to the body and a tonic. It unfolds within an audio visual performance of bodily rhythms – recordings from physiological responses including variations in heart-rate and breathing, associated brainwave frequencies, and incantatory vocals. Performers will accompany Pirecki and the work will conjure a visual and sonic pathway through a cycle of intensity, decay and invigoration.

A co-commission by Art Night and Somerset House, with support from the Adonyeva Foundation.