Rituals for Earthly Survival is an Arts Council England funded arts project produced by one000platueas. The core creative team includes:
Yumino Seki
A Japanese dance artist, Butoh practitioner, and qualified somatic movement educator, she performs, teaches, and collaborates to create site-responsive and improvised dance pieces. Since 2013, she has directed cross-discipline performances, blending Butoh and somatic work. Between 1999-2009, she performed with Tadashi Endo, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Carlotta Ikeda. In 2012, she qualified in VMI Somatic Practice. She collaborates widely, including with Zadie Xa at the Venice Biennale and other major venues. Her work reflects the cultural richness of the UK and Japan, exploring both collective and self-identity.
More details can be found at yuminoseki.com.
Rusty Sheriff
Rusty Sheriff is a sound designer and sonic artist creating work for stage, screen, and performance. Driven by a love of narrative sound, he enjoys working with discarded media, broken objects, lost artifacts, and hidden sounds. He finds his musical pallets in hidden radio sounds, sniffing for electromagnetic rhythms with old scanners, using children’s toys, tape loops, mechanical music boxes, hacked circuits and homemade aerials. His creative manipulation of their sonic qualities produces a richly textured soundscape that are interwoven with original field recordings and abstract electronic sounds from circuit bent artifacts and DIY circuit design/programming to achieve unique sound collages. His work is archived as Prrk Industries on YouTube and Instagram.
More details can be found at www.prrk.co.uk.
Kim Balouch
A self-taught video artist from Portsmouth, began her audio-visual journey in 2010. Her work has been showcased in festivals from Sweden to New York. She’s collaborated with creative director Roy Hanney on projects like “Curse City Dark Tide” and “Octopuses and Other Sea Creatures.” A significant contributor to “The Imaginarium of Dreams,” Kim will soon lead public workshops and co-create with project partners. Her films, using a mix of digital, analogue, and animation, delve into the realm between sleep and wakefulness.
More details can be found at Kim Balouch Vimeo.
Roy Hanney
An AV artist and filmmaker, he blends aleatoric techniques and live remixing to merge didactic filmmaking with real-time AV performance. Starting in the 1980s with experimental films and industrial noise artists, he became a VJ at Brixton’s Fridge Night Club. His work spans screen-dance films, live arts platforms, and large-scale installations. He founded Kino-Kult in 2003, creating immersive audiovisual installations and performances. Recent projects include “Cure or Be Cured” (2017), “Dark Side Portside” (2020), and “Cursed City Dark Tide” (2019). He curates the Imaginarium of Dreams and Aspex Gallery’s live visuals platform.
More details can be found at one000plateaus.com.
John Ashlin
With a background in international education and sustainability, he is passionate about the roles of education and collaboration in improving the world. Holding a Circular Economy MBA from the University of Bradford, he worked with Coventry 2021 UK City of Culture on urban circular transformation. He established a platform for community artists to collaborate on sustainability projects. Currently, he leads the Action Asylum Project in Portsmouth, partnering with Portsmouth City of Sanctuary to connect asylum seekers with local communities for neighborhood and environmental improvements.
More details can be found at LinkedIn.