The backbone to ALL WITHIN A COLLAPSING BUILDING (a septet for the apocalypse) is a series of seven video pieces pieces. Each one cannibalises different versions of a pop song and juxtaposes the resulting loop track with edited video footage found online: collapsing buildings, blooming flowers, distribution centres, melting glaciers, conspicuous displays of wealth, abject poverty, raging wildfires, the opening of COP26, etc.
Visually, the videos work like mandalas by juxtaposing central and peripheral images, developing friction between the images, and between the images and the music. Each video serves as a kind of 'revelation', touching on a particular issue/theme (i.e. the collapse of capitalism, the various effects of climate breakdown, economic inequality, technology and the waste it produces…). The videos are bookended by two audio tracks remixing Laurie Anderson songs, which establish the looped and obsessive qualities of the work, as well as its prophetic and oracular nature. Taking place in front of and alongside the projections, the piece will feature live components: simple repeated choreographies of bold movements and gestures; and a series of collaged texts acting as transitions between each video (as a kind of poetic-absurdist incantations inspired by oracular spirit of the ancient sibyls). |
PRELUDE: FIRST VOICE |
FIRST REVELATION |
SECOND REVELATION |
THIRD REVELATION |
FOURTH REVELATION |
FIFTH REVELATION |
SIXTH REVELATION |
SEVENTH REVELATION |
EPILOGUE: FINAL VOICE |
EXIT MUSIC |