During OFF HIGHWAYs residency at IAC they are developing their odd performance concert format for voice and loop-pedal. The research takes place within the framework of their ongoing experimental sound piece “fog & fox tour” in which they tell poetic and morbid fables with non(common)sensmoral.
“Oh yes, PR leads to death,” groaned Rupert Fox and froze in the image of himself.
In OFF HIGHWAY’s second voice journey the search continues towards the outskirts and insignificances of the city/body. We are navigating by a triangular map with one of its tips pointing down: we turn our burning blind eyes toward the daylight, broaden our trembling leaking mouth openings, rise on unsteady backbones and reach towards: ?
Hear us conjure an uncertain place where the categories of reality and identity crack up
– all should go to waste
These works explore our loss of memory and inability to get the big picture. And the humor and sometimes sadness of it all. It plays on the fact that humans have not been around that long compared to some other species and natural phenomena, the speed of forgetting and remaking of mistakes. How sweet memories can reoccur as only memories - long gone reality.
The rehearsal process works through a combination of interview, movement, and reflection, to excavate and curate a series of possible scenarios, and the ultimate selection that is shared differs from night to night. What happens onstage is an intimate look at a spectacular performance artist—“I’ll let you in on a trade secret,” Astad promises—that at the same time offers glimpses of a much largerscale history that has yet to be written.” The research is part of Rani Nair’s residency at MARC and the performance will premiere in August in Kivik.
Viewable with a VR viewer, Axel Straschnoy’s VR film Detective (2017) takes us on a journey through Kiasma’s newly opened ARS17 exhibition on how The internet and digitalization have radically altered our everyday lives. In Straschnoy’s VR film the art and our whole experience of the exhibition are somehow radically different than in real life, however. What has happened? And what does it mean for us to experience it here in Malmö?
ARS17 is a major exhibition of international contemporary art on the theme of digital revolution. The exhibition will showcase artists of the new millennium and offer a fresh approach to contemporary art by also expanding the viewing experience into the online realm. Read more about ARS17 here.
Detective can be experienced in the Café, 4th floor at IAC. May 30th -June 2nd, 14-16, or by appointment: info[at]iac.lu.se
