Nicola Pilkington
South Africa
Creative / Artist
African Digital Art
NICOLA PILKINGTON is a theatre-maker, filmmaker and educator with an interest in conscious collaborations.
Nicola’s current vocation is to forge ways to hybridize her skills for storytelling on stage and screen simultaneously. This has manifested in projects like ‘Babylon Beyond Borders’, a simultaneous live performance over four stages around the world using telematic and projection technology; a series of performance lectures with Mwenya Kabwe exploring the possibilities of performing African Futurism; and ‘my many mouths’, a collaborative, immersive, multidisciplinary work by four women artist, resulting in a VR experiment combining physical performance, textural installation, theatrical costume, digital art, 360-degree filmmaking and sound.
Nicola’s current vocation is to forge ways to hybridize her skills for storytelling on stage and screen simultaneously. This has manifested in projects like ‘Babylon Beyond Borders’, a simultaneous live performance over four stages around the world using telematic and projection technology; a series of performance lectures with Mwenya Kabwe exploring the possibilities of performing African Futurism; and ‘my many mouths’, a collaborative, immersive, multidisciplinary work by four women artist, resulting in a VR experiment combining physical performance, textural installation, theatrical costume, digital art, 360-degree filmmaking and sound.
