Event
Glasgow International 2018
20 Apr 2018 – 07 May 2018
Trongate 103
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Tai Shani, Dark Continent: SEMIRAMIS, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
Exhibition
Tai Shani: Dark Continent - SEMIRAMIS
20 Apr 2018 – 7 May 2018
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- 25 Albert Drive
- Glasgow
- G41 2PE
- United Kingdom
Event map
Tai Shani creates a large-scale immersive installation that also functions as a site for performance. The work is an experimental adaptation of Christine de Pizan’s 1405 proto-feminist text The Book of the City of Ladies.
About
Twelve performers play characters, including The Neanderthal Hermaphrodite, The Medieval Mystic, The Vampyre, Phantasmagoregasm, and Paradise to create a 12 part performance series, depicting an allegorical city of women, a space to imagine an alternative history which privileges, sensation, experience and interiority, undermining patriarchal conceptions of narrative history to propose a possible post-patriarchal future.
The performances will take place on the opening three days of the festival, with the sequences filmed and the documentation subsequently presented alongside the installation.
Each episode focuses on one of the characters and is delivered through prose monologues which are violent, erotic and filled with fantastical images that re-imagine a world complete with interlinked cosmologies, myth and histories.
Drawing on multiple reference points including feminist science fiction, post-modern architecture, and feminist and queer theory, this is Shani’s most ambitious and multi-layered work to date and includes an original score by ‘Let’s Eat Grandma’.
Performance times
Fri 20 April: 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm
Sat 21 April: 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm
Sun 22 April: 12:30pm, 2:30pm, 4:30pm
Duration 45 mins, free, no booking required.
Please note these performances contain extreme and adult content.
