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Jessica Curry_

part of Evolve Exchange


As a classically trained composer my work fuses traditional instruments and orchestration with applications of digital technology.  My work is an ongoing exploration of human identity, particularly our hidden lives and emotional landscapes and the end result is a lush, melodic, melancholic sound.

I completed my training at the National Film and Television School where I developed a passion for the merging of image, movement and music.  I use film and video in my work, often digitally manipulated and re-coloured, to inject a sense of hyper-realism, nostalgia, loss and hope into the pieces.

I have collaborated on a variety of projects with games developer and researcher Dr. Dan Pinchbeck since 2003, including a series of experimental computer games. Their work often focuses on the portrayal of the human condition through the filter of new technology, and how these technologies offer new means of exploring our inner lives.  The latest of these games, Dear Esther, was selected for Prix Ars Electronica 2008, was an award winner at the prestigious independent games festival Indiecade 09, Los Angeles and has already been downloaded over 30,000 times.

I have exhibited internationally and have received commissions, residencies, grants and awards from organisations such as the Royal Opera House, The Wellcome Trust, The Royal Society of Arts, Location One New York, PVA, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Prix Ars Electronica, Labculture, Arts Council England, Hull Time Based Arts and Exeter Phoenix. I was the first ever Artist in Residence at the New Media Centre at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and was also selected for the European Media Artist Residency Exchange programme in Germany.

My latest film, i carry your heart, was shown around the world in 2008, including the prestigious Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Venezuela; several festivals in Germany; Poland; India and in the UK.  In January 2009 I was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2009, a six day international creative summit in conjunction with the  Berlinale Film Festival.

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Jessica Curry: Composer and Artistic Director

Guy Dickens: Lighting Designer

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Jessica Curry: Composer and Artistic Director

Guy Dickens:  Lighting Designer

ArtsAgenda: Creative Producers

Londinium Choir: Performers

Evolve Exchange: Artist Development and Support

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Wow…

October 9th, 2009

That was quick- just got a call from ArtsAgenda saying that the first lot of funding has come in!  I’m so pleased and I can’t think of a better way to go into the weekend.  Hopefully, more will follow soon.

Perpetual Light

October 9th, 2009

Control Tower, Greenham Common

Control Tower, Greenham Common

My name is Jessica Curry and I am a classically trained composer whose project Perpetual Light is currently is development. Perpetual Light: Requiem for an Unscorched Earth is a site-specific choral performance, set in nuclear bunkers. It is not only for those who have lost their lives in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Cold War but is also a threnody for the war that never happened, a remembrance of all the people who survived due to the non-detonation of nuclear weapons.

Perpetual Light will be presented to a live audience in 3 UK sites.  A 20 voice choir sings the composed requiem.  Each performance will be a unique, beautiful, evocative and haunting site-sensitive piece that invites the audience to engage with its simple, powerful message: hope.  Despite the fact we have created these weapons with the capacity to decimate the entire world we have not yet destroyed ourselves:  we are still here. Perpetual Light isn’t just a memorial to those who died but also a testament to humans’ extraordinary will to survive.

I’m working with wonderful producers ArtsAgenda, with Evolve Exchange and the hugely talented Londinium Choir are also on board.  There are currently several funding applications in and I’ll use the site to update you on the project as it develops.

It’s been a year of work to develop the project to the stage where we’re at now and I can honestly say that I’ve never worked so hard or for so long to get a project up and running.  It’s a total passion project for me- the piece of work that I feel I need to write and it’s a nerve-wracking time waiting to hear back from funders.  Fingers and everything else crossed…

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