Sarah Fernandez - sinking/synching worlds (Performance)
Vasili Vikhliaev - THE UNLIKABLE I (Lecture performance)
Abhay Kumar - Grids of control: Examining deviations which destabilise the Grid (Lecture performance)
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Sarah Fernandez - sinking/synching worlds (Performance)
The installation is a wild tale aimed at decentering our human perception. A speculative Camargue made of dreams of new ecological awareness toward human and non-human relations: that of the insect, animal, vegetal, elemental or of the statues and avatars.
Because decentralizing does not equal erasing, the human figure still haunts the land. In fact, we encounter many humanoids wandering in and out the digital swamp. Each human-like figure embodies a different aspect of the human experience. This scattered portrait looks at the human from a displaced point of view, through glimpses that never fixes those humanoid shapes, but allows them to mute and extend into something else.
Maybe by not looking straight and hard, through the distorted and ever-changing medium of the digital, Sarah and Ailin Formia could finally intercept something too subtle to be captured. With the use of a motion-capture system and the interplay between the physical and digital, the duo will attempt to capture this in a series of live performances.
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Vasili Vikhliaev - THE UNLIKABLE I (Lecture performance)
Vasili's work revolves around the net of relationships that shape his position as a migrant, a foreigner. He uses the camera to reveal family dynamics, marked by exile, rigid gender roles, privilege and exclusion. The camera becomes an instrument for self-analysis and a shield to hide behind, while craving proximity.
Through this play with memory and performative interventions Vasili confronts the gaps in his identity by facing the trauma of his brother, Vova, a trauma for which he is partly responsible (something Vasili doesn’t remember because forgetting is easy).
The camera is more than just a passive observer. Sometimes the protective layer of the lens is needed to face the things that make your hands sweat: the parts of yourself that drive you mad or cause you shame. The unlikable character appears on film footage. Where does he go from there?
During the exhibition Vasili will present a performance lecture with a film screening, and a audiovisual installation.
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Abhay Kumar - Grids of control: Examining deviations which destabilise the Grid (Lecture performance)
‘The Room’ is an off grid desire machine - where lines between terror and pleasure, technology and biology blur.
Why does The Room exist? Who goes to The Room and why?
The only way to find out is to enter The Room. At your own risk.
No Photos on the dancefloor.
