Internal Singing by Cara Tolmie with Long Time Listener + First Time Caller by Susanna Jablonski
Performance/Practice, 2021
Internal Singing is a vocal and performance practice that Cara has been exploring in different forms over the past five years - using it as a material amongst other materials within various performances, sharing it as a workshop, using it as the basis to produce an album of music and presenting it as a research practice within the context of her PhD.
She has come to understand Internal Singing as a practice that explores a sensitive voice-body bind by investigating the relationship between sounding on both the inhale and exhale, vocal imaginaries and self administered touch that calms the body in states of illness and over-stimulation. This is a multi-sensory listening exercise for the performer, characterised by circular vocal sound, slight movement and visible touch that attempts to displace vocality towards and through parts of the body extraneous to the mouth. As it builds up slowly through acute attention to breath, inclination, pleasure and circulation this practice attempts to prise open a space, ever-accessible. One that can be used to gather, improvise and examine what might emerge when acute sensitivity and tenderness are valued as skill.
This instance of Internal Singing was performed within the exhibition "Long Time Listener, First Time Caller" by Susanna Jablonski at Kalmar Konsthall, 2021.
https://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/exhibition/long-time-listener-first-time-caller/