Artprojx presents …‘W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3’
a performance by Tai Shani.Saturday 13th March 11:45pm
Rio Cinema, Dalston 107 Kingsland High StreetLondon E8
Artprojx presents a fantastical, baroque performance by Tai Shani.
‘W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3 ’ a theatrical re-working
of ‘World on a Wire’, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s television
adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye’s science fiction novel, ‘Simulacron 3′.
To mark the dimensional, space-time shift phenomenon due to occur that
night ‘W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3’ is a live teleportation
of Fassbinder’s anti-hero from ‘The New Orpheum Theatre’, a fictional
cinema, to the magnificent, art deco auditorium of the Rio Cinema in
Dalston. Travelling through degrees of fiction and temporality, he
will materialise into three time machines, three body doubles,
collapsing, colliding and forever reproduced.
The performance incorporates a specially commissioned film by LA based
artist Damon Packard, CCTV footage, animations, a Fassbinder Chorus
Line and a Greek chorus.
This piece continues on from a series of large-scale, cinematic
performances that contain science fiction themes, such as time travel
and parallel universe realities. Tai Shani’s work explores the
structure of fiction, the cinematic memory and its corruption of
innate memory as well as the relationship between various mediated and
simulatory channels, the limits of their agency and the ‘real’.
“But Tai’s work isn’t just a fun mix of all the cool 60’s sci-fi look;
she’s also interested in presenting some of the forgotten or
overlooked areas of sci-fi, questioning what writers chose to document
and what history chooses to remember. I like the idea that Tai’s
interest in science fiction allows her to create a non-linear
narrative thread scooped out from historical material that reflects
alternative notions of the future. It’s as if she’s merging these
versions together to create her own hybrid image and narrative.” –
Gemma De Cruz, Art and Music
“There is also a certain humility in works such as ‘Empire & Daughter
Isotope’ since Shani does not remove herself from the league of
fantasists: she too might be subject to the aspirations for a
thrilling desire that never quite delivers when implemented. But even
if the subject matter talks of a certain loss in enacting desire, a
kind of absurd anti-climax then, in contrast, her performances often
afford the audience exactly the opposite experience. They deliver a
riveting thing to live through that we rarely associate with
performance art.” – Ken Pratt, Wound Magazine
Recent Tai Shani exhibitions and performances include The Herzeliya
Biennial, Israel // The Royal Academy, London // The Victoria & Albert
Museum, London // Spike Island + Arnolfini, Bristol // A Foundation,
London // Whitechapel Gallery, London // ARTIS Centre for Fine Arts
Hertogenbosch, Stedelijk Museum Hertogenbosch // Liverpool Biennial 08
// She also writes and performs music as Cherry Mash Cherry.
This performance is supported by the Arts Council England, Lottery Funded
http://www.riocinema.org.uk
http://www.taishani.com
http://www.artprojx.com
W.O.W. Facebook page: http://bit.ly/crTQ47
Tickets £7.50 (£5 concs, artists, students, curators, critics)
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