Cable Depot presents [m]moon[n], a new sound installation by MOOGZ and YoYo Jolitz. Comprised of performance, interactive tactile sonic sculpture, and digital witchcraft, the work is powered by fragmented reflections from the shadow selves of the artists.
This Friday sees the performed installation of a new work by sound artist and hacker MOOGZ along with Berlin-born textile artist YoYo Jolitz. Drawing on aesthetics of witchcraft and ritual, [m]moon[n] is nestled into a contextualisation of psychoanalytic and spiritual reflections on the idea of “self”. The installation takes the shape of tactile, textile sculpture which invites the audience to kneel at it and release their deepest inner criticisms, and in doing so, shape the sounds surrounding them inside the Cable Depot space.
It’s the first of two 2024 shows at Cable Depot for MOOGZ, in the twilight of the space before it upgrades from its Woolwich Dockyard location to a more central-east spot later in the year. It’s the inaugural collaboration between Jolitz and MOOGZ propelled by their shared ambition to create interactive, fabric-based sonic sculptures which invite touch from the audience, and in this work deliver an emotionally-charged and cathartic chaos magick ritual which expels the toxicity sometimes voiced by our inner critic.
The installation sees the theme of vulnerability in MOOGZ’s continued; as the artist is an ethical hacker, there’s a duality to “vulnerability” – cyber vs. emotional. This new work is demanding of its audience to bring a list of their deepest inner criticisms and to howl together, to exorcise themselves of their demons. Clearly this performance fits right into the ’emotional’ vulnerability category and there’s not a shred of compromised data in sight. For once.
It’s quite a departure from the last performance/installation at Cable Depot where MOOGZ invited ethical hackers from a shadowy hit squad – called The Agency™ – to hack the perimeter of CERN while MOOGZ transformed the data into post-apocalyptic sound.
Instead the theme of the installation and film centres around theories of misrecognition of the “self”; depicting the overlap in the mirror phase of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and “Anatta”, in the teachings of Buddha, which describes how the entire universe is “self” and the interconnectedness of everything.
[m]moon[n], Friday 15th March, performance at 7pm doors open 6pm, Cable Depot
To be filmed as part of a new documentary film on the self.
