{"id":98,"date":"2013-11-17T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T12:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2016-09-06T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:40:54","slug":"partus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/?page_id=98","title":{"rendered":"Partus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Partus<\/em><\/strong> (birth) is a collaboration between visual artist Ruth Jones and electronic composer Andy Wheddon that takes as a starting point a CTG scan of a medicalised labour and birth. The 10ft long paper trace contains ultrasound recordings of a number of bodily rhythms that faithfully record the labour, such as the mother\u2019s contractions and blood pressure and the baby\u2019s heart rate. <strong> <em>Partus<\/em><\/strong> reinterprets and enacts the trace as sound, mediating between mourning the medical-technological intervention in labour and\u00a0 reclaiming the human experience. <strong><em>Partus<\/em><\/strong> echoes the altered experience of time that being in labour induces, linking the project to Jones\u2019 on going exploration of liminal or threshold states. The performance combined electronic samples and the live voices of improvisational singers Maggie Nicols and Emily Laurens, to take the audience on an immersive journey through the rhythmic primal beats of one of life&#8217;s great transitions &#8211; birth.<\/p>\n<p>The first performance of Partus took place on Saturday 12th December at Small World Theatre, Cardigan. If you would like to book Partus for your venue, festival or event, please email Ruth Jones holyhiatuswales@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>15 minute documentary film about the making of <em><strong>Partus<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PARTUS\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/169611071?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Still photos below all by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjmorgan.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen J Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_performers_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-715 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_performers_web.jpg\" alt=\"Partus_performers_web\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_performers_web.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_performers_web-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_Indre_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-714 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_Indre_web.jpg\" alt=\"Partus_Indre_web\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_Indre_web.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_Indre_web-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_Indre_web-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience2_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-713 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience2_web.jpg\" alt=\"Partus_audience2_web\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience2_web.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience2_web-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-712 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience_web.jpg\" alt=\"Partus_audience_web\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience_web.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Partus_audience_web-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ruth Jones\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthjonesart.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ruth Jones<\/strong><\/a> is an artist based in west Wales and the founder of Holy Hiatus. Her work explores liminal, or threshold states of being or consciousness. The uncertainty of these in-between states has led them to be regarded with suspicion and anxiety, but they also have enormous creative potential and can be seen as spaces of &#8216;becoming&#8217;, where our identities undergo change or transformation. Through installations, public art projects and film work, Ruth uses ritual patterns to create physical or psychological spaces in which the possibility of an experience of liminality can occur for the viewer or participant.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Wheddon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.concreteplastic.co.uk\/artists\/andy-wheddon-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andy Wheddon<\/strong><\/a> is an electronic musician, a sound designer and an audio artist. He co-runs the label <a title=\"Concrete Plastic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.concreteplastic.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Concrete Plastic<\/strong><\/a> from his home studio in rural Pembrokeshire. Andy uses homemade electronic instruments combined with field recordings, synthesisers and computers to create his music. His sound is organic; drum &#8216;n&#8217; bass beats are deconstructed into decaying textures &#8211; there are faint echoes of blues and jazz and a musical tip-of-the-hat to Musique Concr\u00e8te.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Emily Laurens\" href=\"https:\/\/emilylaurens.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Laurens<\/a><\/strong> is an artist working in a variety of mediums: as a designer and maker often working with sculpture and installation; as a performer, writer and director specialising in puppetry and clown; and as a singer. Performances often explore the hinterland between theatre and ritual. Her work is innovative and inspirational, posing challenging questions. Embracing complexity and working with comedy and tragedy to explore themes such as loss and interconnection. She has worked in theatre since 1998 as a designer, maker, and performer for companies including the Little Angel, Theatre-Rites and The Insect Circus. In 2007 she co-founded, <strong><a title=\"Feral Theatre\" href=\"http:\/\/feraltheatre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feral Theatre<\/a><\/strong>, an international company she co-directs.<\/p>\n<p>Musician, composer,\u00a0 educator, actor, dancer, writer, and community activist, Maggie Nicols has performed and led workshops\u00a0 internationally since the 1960s. She co-founded F.I.G (Feminist Improvising Group) in the 1970s and\u00a0 started the\u00a0 ongoing multi media women&#8217;s workshop performance group CONTRADICTIONS in 1980. In 1991, she began hosting the improvised happening &#8216;The Gathering&#8217; which now takes place in several locations, including London, South Wales, Liverpool and Austria. Alongside Claire Turner she created Guff &amp; Tosh of Absurdly Moving Theatre which performed their\u00a0 \u201csurreal, kitchen sink agit prop performance art\u201d piece &#8216;Refuse&#8217;\u00a0 in venues in West Wales . The piece equates the rubbishing of people and the environment and proposes creative, anarchic ways of transforming seemingly impossible situations.<\/p>\n<p>Some audience comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I really enjoyed the fact that I could lie down during the event on a soft mattress, next to my daughter and let the ambient sounds of what I could imagine it to be like in a womb wash over me&#8230;.I found the whole experience quite powerful, and to be lying within that space next to my daughter to whom I had given birth to 9 years ago was moving&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I went to see Partus as a 9 year old I felt it had a very deep meaning. It was kind of like telling how you feel in amazing music&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was strong and real and physical and emotional. It was good&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Very emotional and intense \u2013 in an amazing way. It felt like I was experiencing birth as a baby but with memories of being the mother. It gave me chills, goosebumps, some parts were almost too much for me (because of my memories) and others I wanted to go on forever&#8230;thank you! Loved it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very intense \u2013 definitely created a liminal space. Many birth memories arose \u2013 free associations of words and imagery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntense \u2013 a build up \u2013 I moved from being interested to feeling uncomfortable and agitated (then fearful) I decided to move and this helped \u2013 I felt more in charge \u2013 moving and releasing. The end was beautiful \u2013 a relief. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found the first 10 minutes or so to be quite discomforting and uneasy listening. But equally felt reassured that something powerful was going to happen! As I got used to the sound and adjusted to the beats and layers of rhythm I began to relax into the experience&#8230;.I will never forget this powerful and moving experience. Praise indeed to all involved\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partus<\/strong><em style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u00a0<\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">is funded by The Arts Council of Wales<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arts-Councilhomepagelogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holyhiatus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arts-Councilhomepagelogo.jpg\" alt=\"Arts Councilhomepagelogo\" width=\"290\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partus (birth) is a collaboration between visual artist Ruth Jones and electronic composer Andy Wheddon that takes as a starting point a CTG scan of a medicalised labour and birth. 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