JEMIMA YONG

Container

written and directed by Alan Fielden

Premiering in April 2025 with performers Clara Potter-Sweet, Ben Kulvichit, Tim Cape, Alan Fielden and me! 

Container is a choral performance exploring the violence and tenderness of living through catastrophe. Drawing influence from Laurie Anderson’s music and Robert Ashley’s television operas, Container makes use of overlapping poetic narratives and live music to explore alternative treatments of text, voice, and storytelling. Structured yet improvised, with words and phrases iterating, converging, branching, and repeating in a cascade of images and characters, Container uses polyphony to express tenderness, overwhelm, and hysteria.

Written and directed by Alan Fielden (JAMS), performed with Ben Kulvichit & Clara Potter-Sweet (Emergency Chorus), Jemima Yong (JAMS), and music/composition from Tim Cape (Bastard Assignments).

We are currently fundraising towards production for the premiere of Container. We hope to tour it after its world premiere in April 2025. For enquiries please contact Alan Fielden: a.d.fielden [at] gmail.com.

Upcoming outings:

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I've been a performer-deviser on various iterations of Container with my long term collaborator Alan. Here are a list of occasions where I've had the pleasure of working on this project:

  • R&D at Hilltop Residency followed by a reading at Something Other Live at Live Art Development Agency with Alan Fielden, March 2020 
  • R&D at Cannonwharf with Nikhil Vyas, Louisa Doyle, Trevor White and Amy McCauley, August 2021
  • Performance at An Incomplete A to Z for Art & Poetry at Mahler & Lewitt Studios with Amy McCauley and Alan Fielden, February 2022
  • R&D at NDT BROADGATE with Amy McCauley, Ben Kulvichit, Nat Norland, Nicholas Worrall, Melanie Pappenheim, October 2022 (other artists that were part of this R&D but whose dates I didn't cross over with were Tara Fatehi and Chris Brett Bailey)
  • R&D at London Performance Studios with Ben Kulvichit, Clara Potter-Sweet, Nat Norland, Amy McCauley, Imogen Sage, Sammy Metcalfe, April 2022 
  • Performance at From the Lips to the Moon with Alan Fielden and Tim Cape with music by Pouya Ehsaei, Sam Warner and Marcos Santana, July 2023
  • R&D at University of Greenwich followed by work-in-progress performance at Camden People's Theatre with Ben Kulvichit, Clara Potter Sweet, Nat Norland, Tim Cape, Alan Fielden, September 2023
  • Live sharing and broadcast on rtm.fm of some adjacent sonic experiments in text at TACO! as part of their blurt programme, July 2024

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