From Here, A Bridge

From Here, A Bridge is a new performance project by Undercurrent, addressing contemporary navigation and journeys. From small everyday journeys to those that bring us to new worlds and cultures, we are always on the move. Increasingly, conflict and climate change force many to take treacherous journeys.

Through an intergenerational lens, we will consider obstacles and navigational tools, from GPS to celestial maps, with consequent gains and losses to way-finding skills and our relationship to environment.

Developing immersive sensory elements including live 360 camera projections, hanging textures and objects, and surround sound, this unique performance will be a participatory audience experience breaking traditional audience-performer barriers.

In collaboration with musician and audio describer Emilie Conway, the project includes innovative approaches to audio-visual and sensory access tools creating a work that welcomes diverse audiences. Other collaborators include ISL signer Lianne Quigley, visual artist Milo Cummins, composer Olivir Haylett.

Looking at freedoms, restrictions and dreams in our journeying, From Here, A Bridge will shed light on gaps within normative culture, open innovative spaces for exploring diverse navigational experiences and ask what it is that keeps driving us forward?

The residency is supported by the Arts Council, The Dock, and Leitrim Arts Office and follows Undercurrent’s successful productions Unearth in 2022 and Landing Places in 2023.