OMNISCIENT CREED
An examination investigating the use of storytelling and folk traditions as an applied method to confront the current state of surveillance and technocapitalism.
8.5.26
8.5.26
15:00 - 17:00
Thoravej 29
Participation is FREE, but please reserve a ticket via the link below due to limited capacity.
The artistic research
For this residency Hugo Chang Coffey has invited collaborators to focus on the bodily sensations of our current surveillance society; of constantly being subjected to “an all-seeing entity”, of imitation, pattern recognition, and movement prediction.
The group invited, Ah-Yili Setareh, Cylo Berg and Klara Lopez, are multidisciplinary artists spanning movement and performance, sound and text, whose individual practices resonate with the theme of technology and storytelling.
Drawing on a character, Yeongno, found in traditional Korean masked dance performance tongyeong ogwangdae, the group will explore concepts embedded in this contemporary moment. Yeongno is a celestial being who wanders the earth after being kicked out of the sky for reasons unknown to us. In order to get back into heaven Yeongno has to eat 100 Yangban, which were a societal class of aristocrats in the Joseon dynasty, referred to in English as noblemen.
Compelled by the satirical and dramatic elements of this “Eat the rich”-story, Chang Coffey asked what would happen if a character like Yeongno was placed in a context where both earth and heaven was being colonised by tech giants.
During this residency the group will explore how myths and storytelling can be re-envisioned through the current technocapitalist landscape.
The artists
With a background in visual arts, and still a big part of Chang Coffey’s practice, he has increasingly worked collaboratively with performance and sound, which will continue during his time at HAUT, for which a team of recurrent collaborators has been put together.
CREDITS
Ah-Yili Setareh
Cylo Berg
Klara Lopez
Hugo Chang Coffey
Hugo Chang Coffey’s praxis revolves around otherness, transformations, ties and disconnections. Through visual arts and mixed media he aims to convey the entanglements between people, land and systems. In his works he explores folklore and speculative fiction as a technology to imagine other realities. Working with borderlands he merges digital, physical and emotional landscapes into a joint imagery.
The format
IN PROCESS is HAUT's 1-2 week residency format, which provides space for physical brainstorming sessions that support the exploration and development of new ideas in the performing arts.
This residency is curated by HAUT's artistic leader Alex Blum.