works*
*selected
ani & sumin
pictured: starring Caroline Denise as ani
video single channel
dyptych split screen
duration: 21:30 min.
photo: video still, Daniel Hughes
behind the scenes:
+ animus & anima Jungian psycology
+ becoming a survivor
director
writer
credits
ani & sumin
Caroline Denise
photographer & editor
Daniel Hughes
sound
Ludovic Barrier
MU/Hair & costume
Nima Séne
supported by
Starter residency - Anna Hodgart
National Theatre of Scotland
with speacial thanks to:
Laura Fisher
The Arlington
nima aida séne is a process-driven
and site-responsive
award-winning artist working with world-building,
directing, devising, performance,
text, and songwriting.
they cultivate “auditory and visual excellence”*
working with video, performance, music,
poetry, installation and set design.
informed by global majority perspectives,
their practice engages with subjects such as
science, popular culture,
and autofictional anecdotes.
core themes include belonging within alienation,
disquieting familiarity,
and solace in the unfamiliar, traversing
joy and grief through tragicomic sur-realities
un/heard, un/seen, un/known.
and site-responsive
award-winning artist working with world-building,
directing, devising, performance,
text, and songwriting.
they cultivate “auditory and visual excellence”*
working with video, performance, music,
poetry, installation and set design.
informed by global majority perspectives,
their practice engages with subjects such as
science, popular culture,
and autofictional anecdotes.
core themes include belonging within alienation,
disquieting familiarity,
and solace in the unfamiliar, traversing
joy and grief through tragicomic sur-realities
un/heard, un/seen, un/known.
* Greater Manchester Reviewer
on the work BEIGE B*TCH
on the work BEIGE B*TCH
B 2 B is a deity
adjacent shapeshifting
entity born from
bass and primordial
darkness
adjacent shapeshifting
entity born from
bass and primordial
darkness
the afro-futuristic space-church themed performance party
live sonic performance and reading for Brownton Abbey
backing track composed and produced by:
Hannah Catherine Jones
Southbank Centre, Take Me Somewhere
2021 & 2019
photo: Tiu Makkonen
live sonic performance and reading for Brownton Abbey
backing track composed and produced by:
Hannah Catherine Jones
Southbank Centre, Take Me Somewhere
2021 & 2019
photo: Tiu Makkonen
credits
bead sound hair & costume design
Sabrina Henry
director & editor
Mathew Arthur Williams
vocalist-performer
Paix
set assistance
Christian Noelle Charles
catering
Jordan Pilling
commissioned by
Marlborough Productions, Brownton Abbey
with special thanks to
Mele Broomes
Brownton Abbey Film collection
with sound composition by:
Mathew Arthur Williams
photo: still from video, Mathew Arthur Williams
behind the scenes:
+ Jamaica Kincaid “Blackness” short story from
the book: “At The Bottom of the River”
+ Sun Ra “There Is No Day”
+ Hannah Catherine Jones “The Opera Show”
“The Oweds”
+ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein “The Disordered Cosmos”
+ moving in darkness
+ Jamaica Kincaid “Blackness” short story from
the book: “At The Bottom of the River”
+ Sun Ra “There Is No Day”
+ Hannah Catherine Jones “The Opera Show”
“The Oweds”
+ Chanda Prescod-Weinstein “The Disordered Cosmos”
+ moving in darkness
auf den weg zu dir” -
site-specific Hochzeitssaal
sold out gatherings
Sophiensaele
12, 13, 14, 15 February
2022
*Sopheinsaele’s
first global majority (BIPoC) only
gathering held on the 14th February 2022
a production by
Nima Séne co-produced with
Sophiensaele funded by the
Senat for Culture and Europe
photo: Mayra Wallraff
directing-devising
set design
concept
set design
concept
light sound performance
May Ayim
poem excerpt
sein oder nichtsein
to be or not to be
poem excerpt
sein oder nichtsein
to be or not to be
credits
ritual / performance
Virginnia Krämer
lighting
Raquel Rosildette
sound composition
Sea Novaa
movement & vocal coaching
Valerie Renay
producer & dramaturgical support
Agnieszka Habrashka
casting & producer
Céline Rodriguez
programmer & producer
Joy Kristin Kalu
ritual / performance
Virginnia Krämer
lighting
Raquel Rosildette
sound composition
Sea Novaa
movement & vocal coaching
Valerie Renay
producer & dramaturgical support
Agnieszka Habrashka
casting & producer
Céline Rodriguez
programmer & producer
Joy Kristin Kalu
behind the scenes:
+ “Ultrasanity. Über Wahnsinn, Hygiene,
Anti-Psychiatrie und Wiederstand”-
Savvy Contemporary
the Laboratory of Form-Ideas
+ “The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying”
-the rainbow body chapter
+ “Blues Legacies and Black Feminism”
Angela Y. Davis
Dear Europe
/
moving
through shadows
pictured is Ifi Ude holding her arms with open palms out to the audience as she sings ‘Warszawo ma’. photo: Drew Farrell
video - 3 channels
&
site-specific
live music performance
SWG3
studio
warehouse studios
Glasgow 2019
Dear Europe
/
moving
through shadows
/
moving
through shadows
video - 3 channels
&
site-specific
live music performance
SWG3
studio warehouse studios
Glasgow 2019
behind the scenes & on 3 screens:
+ Ifi Ude
-contact through
Song of the Goat Theatre
+ August Agbola O’Browne
+ Paul Robeson Interview (1958)
with Elsa Knight Thompson
+ Haitian Revolution - Polish connected history
ex. Ezili Dantor & Lady Częstochowa
video - 3 channels
concept(form)
lead artist
directing
co-research
lead artist
directing
co-research
credits
concept(theme)
Adura Onashile
starring
Ifi Ude
co-research, DoP, editor
& production manager(Warsaw)
Daniel Hughes
interview & translation
Dominika Jarzynska
featuring
Natalia Poniatowska
commisisoned & produced by
National Theatre of Scotland
with special thanks to
Chichi Ude
Marianne Maxwell
Warsaw Uprising Museum
and many more
Chichi Ude
Marianne Maxwell
Warsaw Uprising Museum
and many more
press
the guardian
the national
the guardian
the national
BEIGE B*TCH
trailer and photos: Daniel Hughes
director
performer/actor
writer
set design(stage)
video edit
(assembling footage)
curation
performer/actor
writer
set design(stage)
video edit
(assembling footage)
curation
shows
Contact at Z-Arts Manchester
2018
prologue artist:
mandla
Take Me Somewhere Glasgow
2019
prologue artist
TAAHLIAH
Friscati Amsterdam
2019
prologue artist
Princess Bangura
Sophiensaele Berlin/online
2020
prologue artist
GodXXX Noirphiles
screenings
David Dale Gallery, Glasgow
2022
Somerset House, London
2021
Z-Arts, Manchester
2021
Sophiensaele, Berlin/online
2020
music
performance iterations
Scotland:
Kelburn Garden Party
Eden music festival
Glasgow School of Art summer festival
The Vic, Glasgow School of Art
London:
Camden Peoples Theatre
blackouts
video
poetry-visualiser
credis
poetry & performance
Nima Séne
writing;BeigeB*tch sci-fi backstory
Ama Josephine Budge
producer
Laura Fisher
DoP & editing
Daniel Hughes
video
poetry-visualiser
credis
poetry & performance
Nima Séne
writing;BeigeB*tch sci-fi backstory
Ama Josephine Budge
producer
Laura Fisher
DoP & editing
Daniel Hughes
behind the scenes:
+ colourism
+ Amalgamation Schemes
Antiblackness and the Critique of
Multiracialism by Jared Sexton
+ “Undone; Blackness in Performance”
HZT lecture by Derais Carter
+ Samuel Beckett “Not I”
+
+
+
photo: Daniel Hughes, 2018
credits
costume
Sabrina Henry
research mentor
Derrais Carter
producer
Laura Fisher
featuring
jee chan, Fran.K / Frankie Mulholland
James Primer and Daniel Hughes
DoP, edit (trailer & video technical cut)
maketing materials
production manager(video & Frascati)
Daniel Hughes
set design (video)
Josephine Lalande
sound design (video & live show)
Alicia Mathews
lighting design
Jazz Hutsby
sound recording (video)
Luduvic Barrier
make up (video)
Venus Von Vorstadt
sound design (video theme tune)
Alex MacKay
Commissioned by
Contact
Live Art UK & Diverse Actions
supported by
Creative Scotland, The Work Room,
National Theatre of Scotland, Tramway,
BUZZCUT, Platform,
Take Me Somewhere
Diverse Actions & Live Art UK, Manchester 2021
David Dale Gallery, Glasgow 2022
background Image: Mayra Walraff