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kristina chan
Kristina Chan’s works are a culmination and accumulation
into site specific history to depict socio-cultural entropic
narratives. They explore the correlation between architecture
and sculptural landscapes of derelict and disused spaces.
She seek sites where the intersection between function and
intention have fallen into decline and disrepair, where untold
histories recount themselves, in all their brevity, satire, beauty,
and collapse.
For Hidden Door 2017, Chan will create a print installation -
monumental in scale - of the venue itself, to serve as homage
to the once abandoned Leith Citadel Theatre: its resurrection
from dereliction to once again take centre stage, both
metaphorically and literally, to today’s emerging artists.
Kristina Chan wishes to thank The Elizabeth Greenshields
Foundation for its financial support in this project.
Sax Shaw luci holland theresa moerman IB
A favourite from 2015’s festival, Hidden Door are delighted to
see Sax Shaw return with a new sculptural installation in 2017,
this time on our invited artists programme. Luci Holland is a composer, arranger, conductor and arts
producer who composes for film, games and concert. Luci
graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MSc in
Composition for Screen in 2013, now working regularly with
the youth music charity Tinderbox Project, and coordinating
artistic interactive seminars and performances as the
Edinburgh Game Symposium and with her music-for- media
band Mantra Collective. Theresa Moerman Ib is a Glasgow-based artist and filmmaker,
born in 1977 in TheNetherlands and raised between England,
Belgium and Denmark. In 2013 she was selected for the Catlin
Guide, an annual collection of the 40 most promising new
graduate artists in the UK. Since then, her work has garnered
several accolades and has been shown both in the UK and
internationally. In 2015, the Scottish Documentary Institute,
Creative Scotland and Channel Four commissioned her to make
The Third Dad, an experimental short documentary. The BAFTA
Scotland New Talent award-winning film, also named Best UK
Short at London’s East End Film Festival, was selected for more
than 25 film festivals and curated screenings worldwide and
has received almost 400,000 views as a Vimeo Staff Pick.
Shaw’s practice centralises around material process; how
material is in a perpetual state of change through a dualistic,
iterative, exchange with process. As a maker, Shaw finds an
inevitable interplay between his work and a pursuit to find his
place, as material in an unending state of change.
For HD17 Shaw is composing an excerpt from his static
performance of makers’ titled, ‘Torso’. Boiled leather figurers
fixed on material manipulation are in the midst of creation; the
viewer glimpses the makers’ environment at the juncture of
material being transformed from one state to another through
process. The piece examines our continuous, conscious and
subconscious reformation.Scotland. Join the movement!
In 2016 she orchestrated and produced an arrangement of
Jessica Curry’s Disappearing for official release with label
Materia Collective, and is currently composing the music for
indie game Echoes, in addition to contributing tracks to the
upcoming Skyrim mod Lordbound. She is also working on
several other international collaborative recording and music
projects for film, and original music albums.
Her project for Hidden Door 2017, ‘Citadel’, will reflect the live
rejuvenation of the Old Leith Theatre space by building unusual
atmospheric soundscapes over the festival period, through
registering the visitor count and translating this into sonic
layers. Listeners will experience the sound of life breathing
back into the space around them as the festival unfold
Her practice is multidisciplinary focusing mainly on film,
photography and curation. Memory and folklore are recurring
themes in her work as is the appropriation and repurposing
of found materials. Inspired by biography and psychology, her
work embraces the personal narrative as a performance that
can be constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed each
time is it retold.
For Moerman Ib’s work as an invited artist at this year’s Hidden
Door festival, she has been inspired by the history of Leith
Theatre as a venue for musical performances and stage plays.
Also informing the artist’s research is a personal excavation
of her interest in folk music and her own past in amateur
theatre, which came to an abrupt halt due to the sudden
onset of stage fright at the age of 19. The work will consist
of an experimental film created especially for the festival,
accompanied by supporting sculptural installations. These
will explore the idea of silenced voices (both the