Starting from April 2024 at the V&A Museum, responding to the exhibition Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence.
This ongoing series explores modes of institutional critique via performance, acoustic mediums and the kinetic crossovers found in between — [at]tending concepts by Jane Rendell “Site-Writing”, the 19th century’s “Tableaux Vivants” (living painting | picture) and Tina Campt’s “Still-Moving-Images”.
This ongoing series explores modes of institutional critique via performance, acoustic mediums and the kinetic crossovers found in between — [at]tending concepts by Jane Rendell “Site-Writing”, the 19th century’s “Tableaux Vivants” (living painting | picture) and Tina Campt’s “Still-Moving-Images”.
J. Paris performs as the sound engineer [on set] using a double bass as he builds up tension and cinematic compositions engaging directly with audiences: re-producing the collective silence, echo, attention, gestures, footsteps and hums from the unexpected place. Humming as a Praxis evokes a panoramic analysis on the “capital’s set up” itself through a play around hegemonic ideals of ‘a spectacle’, ‘a rehearsal’, ‘the spectator’ as these roles get blurred through the framework’s rendering points.