PERFORMANCE
CODA
Time frame: 09:00 – 11:00
Location: Furtherfield McKenzie Pavilion and Finsbury Park
Artists: The Hexists (led by Rachel Baker & Kayle Brandon)
Conceptual Approach:
3 Keys - The River Oracle is a game of chance and divination.
Following the lost river of London, Hackney Brook, from Finsbury Park
to the Olympic park, it attempts to invoke the relationship between
the divinatory functions of our contemporary 'influencing machines'
(cybernetic systems of data-mining, data profiling and data protection)
and traditional magical ones, creating new machines in the process. Using
tools such as cards, dowsing and stick throwing to interpret phenomena
in the landscape, historical and current, 'readings' can be cast, allowing
associative action, language and thought to determine what might happen in the
future, to create movement, a path, a score. The score will generate an audio
composition for online streaming.
[act1] REMORSE
[act2] BETRAYAL
[act3] OVERATHROW
[act4] INSURGENCY
[act5] ETERNAL RETURN