CURRENT PRACTICES
TIDES
2018 - PRESENT
TIDES is a collection of outdoor improvisational landscapes, composed and performed by me, Emma Judkins.
Improvisation is the practice by which I look for new information. I have often felt that my patterns and tendencies are disrupted and overridden when responding to the wealth of information available in the natural world. While I have recorded these observational communions since 2018, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic charged my proximal outdoor surroundings with a sense of safety, constancy and receptivity, and has led me to reinvigorate and reprioritize this practice.
NOTE: The following three landscapes were created in conversation with compositions by Adam Schatz. I spend time listening to a particular composition, and then record the response outside without sound present. The resulting chance weavings of sound, timing and movement are by design.
Improvisation is the practice by which I look for new information. I have often felt that my patterns and tendencies are disrupted and overridden when responding to the wealth of information available in the natural world. While I have recorded these observational communions since 2018, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic charged my proximal outdoor surroundings with a sense of safety, constancy and receptivity, and has led me to reinvigorate and reprioritize this practice.
NOTE: The following three landscapes were created in conversation with compositions by Adam Schatz. I spend time listening to a particular composition, and then record the response outside without sound present. The resulting chance weavings of sound, timing and movement are by design.
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TIDES // DUNE (2020)
Screened at FreeSkewl's On The House (December 2020) Sound: "Turtle-Egged" by Adam Schatz Filmed by Adam Schatz on the homeland of the Mashpee Wampanoag in Pamet, or what is now known as Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA < Click the photo to view the film on Vimeo |
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TIDES // CLOVER (2020)
Shared via Instagram TV (August 2020) Sound: "Large Mouth Bass" by Adam Schatz Filmed on the homeland of the Eno Tribe, or what is now known as Chapel Hill, NC < Click the photo to view the film on Vimeo |
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TIDES // BIRD BONES (2020)
Shared via Instagram (May 2020) Sound: "Bird Bones" by Adam Schatz Filmed on the homeland of the Mashpee Wampanoag in Pamet, or what is now known as Truro, MA < Click the photo to view the film on Vimeo |
DEBORAH
2017 - PRESENT
DEBORAH is Asli Bulbul, Eleanor Hullihan, Jimmy Jolliff and Emma Judkins.
The first time Asli and Eleanor rolled over each other in the studio they realized they had something special so they decided to get together in the studio with Jimmy. Emma is a visionary and curated their first performance. Not long after they realized Emma needed to join the team.
We use improvisation to look at our histories as people and with dance and music. What ways of moving, sounding, thinking are held over from past experiences. What is forbidden, what is assumed and who are we now? As performers we are active, present, intense and ready to produce something singular. We try not to have expectations and we choose our relationships to each other first. In a tumultuous world we choose to continue, to love, to see each other, to create.
