40 Minutes
40 Minutes is a collaboration with Janet Smith, choreographer and Artistic Director at the Scottish Dance Theatre, 1997-2012.
The work was inspired by the New York Grand Central Station’s oral history project where a sound booth was placed in the station to record information from people’s lives for 40 continuous minutes. Scottish Dance Theatre’s 40 Minutes investigates the information and memories people choose to reveal from years of life experience within this specific time frame.
40 Minutes was a touring dance production for the Scottish Dance Theatre.
Choreographer – Janet Smith
Video Artist - Pernille Spence
Composer - Christopher Benstead
40 Minutes
40 Minutes is a collaboration with Janet Smith, choreographer and Artistic Director at the Scottish Dance Theatre, 1997-2012.
The work was inspired by the New York Grand Central Station’s oral history project where a sound booth was placed in the station to record information from people’s lives for 40 continuous minutes. Scottish Dance Theatre’s 40 Minutes investigates the information and memories people choose to reveal from years of life experience within this specific time frame.
40 Minutes was a touring dance production for the Scottish Dance Theatre.
Choreographer – Janet Smith
Video Artist - Pernille Spence
Composer - Christopher Benstead
Raman Mundair is an Indian born, queer writer, artist and activist based in Shetland and Glasgow. She is the award winning author of Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves, A Choreographer's Cartography, The Algebra of Freedom (a play) and is the editor of Incoming: Some Shetland Voices.
Her work is socially and politically observant, bold, mischievous, cutting edge and potent with poetic imagery and integrity. She has published poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction and has performed and exhibited her artwork around the world from Aberdeen to Zimbabwe. She presents the Intersectional Voices (IV) podcast and is the founder of EKTA - a fb intersectional feminist fb space.
twitter: @MundairRaman
Insta: @rmundair
She regards herself as a writer who writes, makes art, film and installation.
For more information on her work visit:
shetlandamenity.org/the-artist
Film/video installation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEpaNrg1dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkIxd9Cd6wE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWmWGCDU5ak
Selected sound installation, audio versions of work and articles can be found here:
http://www.writingthenorth.com/dialogues/rose-of-the-rock/
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sheep-hill-fair-isle/
https://soundcloud.com/user-724492265
https://www.shetlandamenity.org/the-incoming-project
https://www.conter.co.uk/blog/2018/4/12/thoughts-on-race-afua-hirschs-brit-ish
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/01/05/your-land-is-my-land-perspectives-from-an-immigrant/