Exhibition
Cave Exits
In video games, there is the concept of a dungeon that generates itself – an endlessly mutating death labyrinth. Burr sets this living structure inside a 4-channel video cube. Cave Exits is a Tarkovsky-inspired multimedia narrative that recalls the way we interact with online media – clicking, zooming, scrolling – turning the visual archetype of the labyrinth into a circuit board for our lost, anxious feelings.
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Little Birds and a Demon
From an isolated lighthouse on the southernmost tip of the Shetland Islands, three opera singers and an ensemble of musicians will send out a call about love and death – for all those who care to listen.
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Lost High Street
A tourist on an open-top bus tour around Edinburgh is unsure of his own past life, mixing what he thinks are his own memories with misheard fragments of the tour guide’s spiel.
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Opaque
There is not simply “the enemy”, and it is not always “over there.” Rather, the enemy might be a lover, a friend; it might dwell in the heart, and resist being pinned down to the position of perpetrator – or victim; and named war, or capitalism, or patriarchy one might like to fight it over there, while enjoying its profits right here. (Antke Engel)
Within an abandoned swimming pool, a curtain is set as both the backdrop and shield for two performers claiming to represent an underground organisation. In blazes of colour and trails of smoke, with nods to Kenneth Anger, the Weather Underground and Jean Genet, Lorenz and Boudry proclaim the power of refusal and the right to opacity.
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Still at Large
Still at Large weaves a real and fictional past of a dreamlike encounter with Roman Polanski’s Lindisfarne-set Cul-de-Sac. Narrator Nicholas Still is confronted by the apocalyptic reveries of a distant voice, unable to discern where this omnipresent being is emanating from.
Is it the voice in his own head, or is it emanating from the Holy Island landscape, or the sea? Or is it the narrative itself ultimately condemning us to the brutal sadism of storytelling?
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The Reagan Shorts
Though a prolific actor, Ronald Reagan’s true defining role was Leader of the Free World. In The Reagan Shorts, Velez presents a number of exceptional and disruptive moments from an archive of more than 2,000 hours of choreographed pathos and pageantry that officially documented his presidency.
