CEMENTED
by Lorna Rees Company
Music/Sound
Cement is everywhere. It is in our roads, our homes and it is the binding agent in concrete. It is also responsible for 8-10% of global CO2 emissions.
Cement is of the planet and bad for the planet. But most people don’t think about it at all. CEMENTED will be a joyful performance exploring built environments, drawing attention to the cement which bonds us together in public space. This surreal, 2-hander walkabout features new music, sound and eye-catching costume.
CEMENTED is for urban spaces – high streets, market squares and car parks. It’s intended to encourage the celebration of the everyday.
“It’s as bizarre as it sounds, dosen’t take itself too seriously, but grows increasingly profound.”
The Guardian (on Geophonic)
“By inviting us to relax and listen, and to look up rather than along the horizontal plane that we mostly operate in, Lorna Rees has given us a marvellous gift. The stories she tells are beguiling and beautifully woven together….the whole experience is delightful”
Total Theatre Magazine
“Such an ambitious and engaging project, beautifully realised – Canopy is a great addition to this year’s Inside Out Festival, and will hopefully live on in other locations.”
Dorothy Max Prior, Total Theatre Magazine
About Lorna Rees
Lorna Rees is a multidisciplinary Live Artist who makes innovative work for the outdoors, usually with sound or music at the core and her performative installations almost always take place outdoors. She tours nationally and internationally with work inspired by Earth Science, folk and the environment.
Her major works include performative sound installation Ear Trumpet (2014) which has toured the UK, Europe and South Korea and is still performed a decade after its creation. Cloudscapes (2016) is a headphone piece which tours extensively throughout the UK in sites from beaches to multistorey car parks. Geophonic (2021) is a folk ritual for the rock cycle, an augmented listening experience which has toured rural landscapes (Inside Out Dorset) to the Greenwich Peninsula (GDIF Festival) to volcanic craters (Sismograf Festival, Catalonia) and a unique co-presentation at the Liverpool Biennial/British Science Festival.
Her new work, CANOPY comprises 24 sonic seed pods and is an audio installation for forests and urban woodlands. Lorna also runs Wassails, is a host, and appears occasionally as the High Priestess of Pop, flanked by an entourage of Disco Druids. Lorna is Associate Artist for Inside Out Dorset (Activate Performing Arts) and is Co-Chair of Outdoor Arts UK.
Funding, commissioning and partner credits:
CEMENTED ‘ is supported by Without Walls Blueprint R&D.
Concept image by Lorna Rees.