Empire and Daughter Isotope

Associated Exhibition: 
The Institute of Psychoplasmics
Event Date: 
8 May 2008
Event Time: 
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Event Location: 
Shoreditch Town Hall

As part of the exhibition the Institute of Psychoplamics, Pump House Gallery is pleased to present Tai Shani's one-off ritual performance extravaganza set in the magnificent auditorium of  Shoreditch Town Hall. An epic black magic cult sacrifice performed to Guapo's (Æthenor, Chrome Hoof, Miasma and The Carousel of Headless Horses) live doom/prog score. With mistress of all trades Angie Reed as the Minnie Mouse High Priestess conducting the ceremony and the specter of notorious Satanist Anton Lavey re-enacting his famous 1964 Jaybird Magazine poses.

A cast of familiar archetypes: Forever Travelling Salesmen, Walking, Talking, Living Sex Dolls, Messenger Majorettes participating in the resurrection of 12 uncorrupted Virgins. From the dead the 12 shall rise, strangely animate but dead already, Daughters Isotope. THEY ARE DEAD, WE ARE NOT, WE ARE YOURS.
 
Meanwhile performance collective Insectoid’s hive also colonise the stage and perform their own entomological rites, exploring insect behaviour to produce exoskeletal sounds.