To mark the launch of Neon Hieroglyph 7 MTP commission by Tai Shani this is an online candlelit gathering with the artist to collectively experience this new audio artwork together. The evening will include a live stream of the work and Q & A with Tai.
The Neon Hieroglyph is a series of poetic considerations on the feminised history of Ergot, a fungus that grows on various grains, from which LSD is derived. Travelling from the cellular to the galactic, from Palaeolithic cave markings to the optic markings left by drone photography in our internal eye, communist green witch mythologies, dancing plagues, descents and ascents. A fragmented, symbolic mausoleum for psychedelic witches, a house for ghosts where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide, where gothic affects and fractal dread are interpreted into artefacts drawn from a taxonomy of burial objects, structures, and ceremony.
Neon Hieroglyph 7 includes a composition by Maxwell Sterling. It is a More Than Ponies Peal commission - an ongoing series of public sound works intended to provide individuals with self-led alternative experience of the New Forest woodland or indeed any forest anywhere.
BYO candlelight or feel free to watch in the dark.
Link will be emailed to you approx 2 hrs prior to the event.
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Tai Shani is the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. In 2019 Tai was a Max Mara prize nominee. Her work has been shown at Turner Contemporary, UK (2019); Grazer Kunst Verein, Austria (2019); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy (2019); Glasgow International, UK (2018); Wysing Arts Centre, UK (2017); Serpentine Galleries, London (2016); Tate, London (2016); Yvonne Lambert Gallery, Berlin (2016) and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016).
** Please note this event has changed from it’s original date of March 6.