Speaking Towards One Another project is created and performed by Stephanie Lamprea (soprano), Yuki Neoh (performer), Megan McArthur (performer), Oana Stanciu (video art), Jen McGregor (dramaturg), Anne Kjær (video dramaturg and performer), and Tim Cooper & Alistair MacDonald (live electronics).

Speaking Towards One Another is a series of interdisciplinary staged performances for voice, live electronics, video, wearable performance technology, and British Sign Language. The first full performance will be premiered in Inspace in May 2025 as part of a video and sound installation.

This unique opening performance will use live electronics to transform and digitise the singing and speaking voice, and wearable digital technologies to transform British Sign Language into live sounds and visuals. The concert will be accessible to hearing and D/deaf audience members via visual interpretations of the music, a live BSL translator, and printed programmes with all texts spoken, sung, and signed in the performance.

Exhibition Details

Speaking Towards One Another installation is co-created by Oana Stanciu, Anne Kjær, Stephanie Lamprea, and Yuki Neoh. It features multi-screen projections of ‘moving portraits’ and a music composition by Wende Bartley, performed by Stephanie Lamprea. By exploring images of public identity, gender performativity, female presence, expression, and testimony, the moving images seek to subvert the male gaze and become figures of power in the public space.

Dates: 23-28 May 2025
Times: 10:00-17:00 daily  | Free/Drop-in
Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

About the Project

This project will feature two newly commissioned musical works by composers Laura Bowler and Amble Skuse, and recent works by composers Rebecca Saunders, Stuart Macrae, and Tom W. Green, setting texts by writers and artists Alwynne Pritchard, Carol Ann Duffy, Gertrude Stein, Adah Isaacs Menken, and Hannah Siddiqui. These works create a theatrical narrative addressing topics of women’s testimony, language and the body, gender representation, and resilience within disability.

This unique opening performance will use live electronics to transform and digitise the singing and speaking voice, and wearable digital technologies to transform British Sign Language into live sounds and visuals. The concert will be accessible to hearing and D/deaf audience members via visual interpretations of the music, a live BSL translator, and printed programmes with all texts spoken, sung, and signed in the performance.