Synchronic (in)visibility

2017
​Performance
- Duration 25 min
- Single channel live broadcast with multi-camera VJ-ing


​Synchronic (in)visibility (2017) is a work that operates as a disembodied experience of performance, since the performer is not physically present in the gallery space before the audience. The audience is instead viewing the performance on a large screen projection, while the performer is at an undisclosed location performing alone.

The performance is live-feed broadcasted on the internet in realtime, so in addition to the gallery goers, anyone, anywhere could access the performance. In the undisclosed space (the performance broadcast room), there are 3 surveillance cameras at different angles set up in the space, while the broadcast source runs an automated VJ programme that layers the camera angles at intervals, enhancing the linear abstraction of the high-visibility lines.

The performer is wearing a black suit lined with high-visibility reflective strips that are removed one-by-one over the duration of the performance and composed onto the wall.


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Credits:

Custom VJ programme written by Peter Mackenzie

Sound design by James Philip Brown

Performed by Monica Tolia

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Exhibitions/events:

​- Performed live at Enclave Lab in 'We're All Involved In This Mess' on 11 May 2017 (http://www.enclaveprojects.com/enclave-gallery/enclave-7-enclave-lab-were-all-involved-in-this-mess/​)
- Livefeed broadcast performance in the 'No Future' exhibition at Out of the Brew Gallery as apart of the 'Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future' Conference from the Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS) at Goldsmiths, University of London on 15 June 2017 (https://the-dots.com/projects/nofuture-exhibition-167613)

​11.05.2017:  First iteration of project. Live performance at Enclave Lab (London). Live-stream broadcast in Buster Mantis and Job Centre, Deptford.

​15.06.2017:  Final iteration of project. Disembodied performance. Live broadcast from Deptford Studios on Ustream, screened live in the 'No Future' exhibition at Out of the Brew Gallery (London).