Harold Offeh, Tai Shani and Maxwell Sterling

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Current residency artists Harold Offeh, Tai Shani and Maxwell Sterling invite you to join them for an evening of newly developed performances and on-going research.

Harold Offeh will present a new performance-lecture contextualising his current research. From the trope of the lounging figure on album covers of the 1970s and 80s, through to technology that documents the body and an interest in developing a revolving platform for performance, these disparate strands of new research are linked through an emphasis on 'hyper-subjectivity'. 

Tai Shani will invite the actress Maya Lubinsky to read from her feminist horror film, I Am Paradise, a fleshy Promethean myth told in space but not in time. The text forms part of Tai's on-going project Dark Continent Productions, an experimental and expanded adaptation of Christine de Pizan's 1405 pioneering feminist book, The Book of the City of Ladies, within which Pizan builds an allegorical city for notable women drawn from a medieval conception of history, where fact, fiction and myth are blurred.  

For his residency at Wysing, Maxwell Sterling is observing, experimenting and re-synthesizing the human voice, as a way of de-coding and studying its profound role as a communications device and musical instrument. Maxwell has been recording with youth choir Harringey Vox and drawing on an archive of late night conversations compiled by artist Max Hawkins for the Call in the Night app. Maxwell's research will culminate in a performance with vocalist Teresa Winters (The Death of Rave). Live voice and instrumentation will converse with recorded voices, creating a dialogue between permanence and transience, fragility and beauty, ancient and modern.  

Please note that this event is not suitable for under 18s. Part of the event will be outside on Wysing's site, so please wear appropriate clothing and footwear.