Structured improvised performance by Truman/Shand/Cunnigham/Milne

About this event

This structured improvised performance by the fragile ids (Jo Truman, John Shand, Tim Cunningham/ Andrew Milne) will consist of Jo Truman (voice and keyboards), John Shand (percussion), Tim Cunningham (electric bass) and Andrew Milne (electronic sound processing), and will take place at the Articulate Project Space as part of/and informed by "The Hidden" project.

Jo Truman is a guest artist invited by the Articulate Project Space for their tenth anniversary.

8-13 February - Graphic memory map by Jo Truman

8-13 February -sound installation by Andrew Milne and Jo Truman 

The hidden is part of a larger project exploring  the hidden ripple effect of trauma and intergenerational trauma experienced in family life.  It concerns the negotiation of annihilating forces in childhood and coming to terms with them as an adult.


It maps memories in images, sounds and words. Words which are the sonic and written scaffolding around which identity is formed. Words upon which a little self swings between the gaps separating identity,  self and void, the internal and external.  Words from early life which repetitively replay in the mind in the present, blurring any clear distinction between then and now, tinging every waking moments with the colours of the past,   echos of  the struggle of existential angst, threatening to  obliterate every living moment with  it's own potential for renewal. The struggle between the desired calm mindfulness of the  present and  deeper visceral impulses of flight and fight. 


Images from fragmented memories are incorporated into a drawn memory map which also simultaneously behaves  as a music/sound score. The body, with imprinted memories and responses, informs the voice which interfaces inner and outer worlds. 

Proof of vacination is requested upon entry