"Stormwater" 3 screen video art installation by Tom Skipp

On Wednesday, October 31, at "La Sede" (COAM) it will project on three screens a Video-triptych installation produced and filmed, in 2009, by Tom Skipp in the biggest stormwater, in Arroyofresno, Madrid. If you can not go, here we leave the video, but it's best to see it in large format, go to La Sede! For my Catalan friends from Madrid.

Stormwater. Video screenshot. By Estrella Sonora - Tom Skipp

Tom Skipp's new piece, a video triptych, was filmed inside the biggest stormwater reservoir in Europe just before it was opened, filled with water and closed to the public forever.

The song is called "O Virgo Splendens" taken from the earliest known manuscript of Catalonian music. The choir dressed as workers sings "Weep oh mine eyes", by John Bennet. More: estrellasonora.com

FILM DETAILS

Videotriptych (three screens). Colour. HD video
Sound: Stereo.
Filmed at the underground Storm Water Deposit at Arroyofresno, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2009.
Project awarded by Matadero Madrid, Ayudas a la creación
Production: My Oscillating Identity and Tom Skipp.

CAST

Soprano: Laura Fernández Alcalde
Countertenor: Angel Chirinos
Tenor: Javier Jacome
Choir: La Trova
Direction, photography, editing: Tom Skipp
Sound: Marcel Garbi
Music: "Weep, O Mine Eyes", John Bennet,
"O Virgo Splendens", Llibre Vermell
Stills photography: Gonzalo de la Serna

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TOM SKIPP

Tom Skipp, nace en Inglaterra, estudió teatro en la Arts Educational School de Londres, y después en Brooklands College, Weybridge. Se graduó en Estudio de Teatro por la Universidad de Warwick. Hizo varias giras por Europa como actor y director de obras de Shakespeare, Wedekind, Barnes, etc. Desde 1990 vive y trabaja en España. En 1996 organizó una exposición sobre el director de teatro polaco Tadeusz Kantor en Madrid (Fundación Telefónica) y en Barcelona (Fundación Caixa de Catalunya). En 2005, co-comisarió la exposición Real Spanish Art en el Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art, Japón.