She invites people of all ages and backgrounds to join three ‘unconventional’ choirs for a performance piece to be presented in North West Cambridge early this December.
A new artist has been appointed for the fourth year of the Habitation Artist Residency programme of the North West Cambridge Development: Melanie Manchot.
Melanie Manchot is a London based visual artist who works with photography, film and video as a performative and participatory practice. Her projects often explore specific sites, public spaces or particular communities in order to locate notions of individual and collective identities. The mutability of subjectivity as well as the agency of the camera in creating a set of relations are key interests within Manchot's on-going enquiry into personhood and its representations.
Melanie Manchot's residency at North West Cambridge culminated in a performance of unusual choirs in the Concert Hall of the newly opened Community Centre at Eddington. A rap choir, a drama choir, a pagan choir and a clown choir joined voices and gestures to perform a translation of four 'scores' created from cross-disciplinary talks with Cambridge University post doc researchers.
