Shortwave - New Screen Commissions
Shortwave #16: Mat Spisbah, Harrison Hall, Li Yi Fan - If you cant Larp (2024)
6m 34s
"If you cant Larp, You'll cry" scrutinises the shift in digital media production brought about by the subscription economy and the implications of not owning but merely accessing software. It explores how these tools have changed the way we communicate, and created new desires for understanding and connection. Through the work, the group speculates that services and hacks use video technology could construct a new politics of life by projecting a totality yet to come.
Artists
Unreal Engine Development
Li Yi Fan
Sound & Script
Mat Spisbah
Choreography & Movement
Harrison Hall
Up Next in Season 3 (2024)
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Shortwave #17: Trà Mi Dinh - Nhang Tr...
Nhang Trầm Hương is a cinematic movement piece suspended in a cloud of incense smoke.
In an abstract choreography of body and film, Dinh considers her relationship to incense, identity, and family. Incense smoke is fleeting; always moving, unfurling, expanding. As it curls and wafts through spac...
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Shortwave #18: Blak Social - Gatekeep...
Gatekeepers is a hidden bar out the back of Haze Land in Queen’s City. The place where you find all the Indigenous musicians you never get to meet because of the gatekeepers in the music industry.
Gatekeepers is the fourth instalment of Blak Social’s Queenscitiverse project which already include...
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Shortwave #19: Maissa Alameddine & Na...
Maissa Alameddine & Narjis Mirza - Mohabbat, a Lullaby for a Rising.
Multi-disciplinary artists Maissa Alameddine and Narjis Mirza share a practice of working collaboratively with their communities, developing contemporary stories grounded in their diasporic experiences. Stemming from their rec...
