helena@atkin.london
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Helena’s current artistic practice stems from a long-held love of musical notation & belief in its potential as a creative discipline in its own right. Through the subsequent cultivation of her practice as a ‘notationist’, Helena has come to work closely with performance as a means of exploring notation’s distinct capacity to simultaneously compose material across both time & space, as the temporal information of the sonic is necessarily encoded into the spatial arena of a score with the inscription of each notational marking. Through performance, she hopes to illuminate ways in which we might inhabit the inherent kineticism of this process & embody the resultant markings & gestures with the same artistic significance typically reserved for their musical counterparts.
Much of her artistic & academic work takes an interest in language & textuality, life & culture under Soviet rule, & explorations of space as a temporally dynamic & inherently relational medium.
Helena (London, 2001) is a British-Estonian composer-performer & ‘notationist’. She holds a Master’s in Contemporary Performance and Composition (CoPeCo) from the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon & a Bachelor’s in Music (composition & classical piano performance) from The University of Manchester. She frequently works in collaboration with artists across a range of creative disciplines & has performed/had her work performed across Europe. She has held artistic residencies at Maajaam (Estonia), ActinArt Intensive (Iceland), & Copper Leg (Estonia).
Helena is also a passionate educator & teaches regularly, both professionally & as a volunteer (see ‘contact’ for more info).
RECENT & UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
8 JAN 25 PHI X ARCANE EXHIBITION - The Dublin Castle, London, UK
9 JUL 24 INKY WITH IT - CoPeCo Final Masters Presentation, HfMT Forum, Hamburg, DE
17 JUN 24 TELEMATIC MUSIC CONCERT with Georg Hajdu – Ligeti Zentrum, Hamburg, DE
17 MAY 24 TAOI 24-1 with Vlatko Kučan - The Art of Improvisation, Rezonanzraum, Hamburg, DE
1 FEB 24 LABOPÉRA –ENSATT, Lyon, FR
8 OCT 23 OPEN LAB – CNSMDL Salle de Varèse, Lyon, FR
26 MAY 23 TORNET #1 with Hara Alonso - Hagalunds Vattentorn, Stockholm, SE
11 APR 23 SUDDENLY, IT IS MISSING - KMH Lilla Salen, Stockholm, SE
10 JAN 23 UNCOMMON THREADS - EMTA Blackbox, Tallinn, EE
10 DEC 22 IMPROTEST - Mustpeade Maja, Tallinn, EE
13 NOV 22 OVERHEAD - müriaadFEST, EMTA Blackbox, Tallinn, EE
9 OCT 22 JOHN CAGE 110 - Eesti Kontsert, Tallinn, EE
8 OCT 22 KAS JOHN CAGE ON SURNUD? - Mustpeade Maja, Tallinn, EE