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Tragod​í​a

by Tai Shani Maxwell Sterling

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Soundtrack to VR play Tragodía.
Composition: Maxwell Sterling
Writing: Tai Shani

Tragodía is a play about 2 old sisters and their very elderly mother, (visually gender ambiguous), a ghost, and a cat. The point of view, is an intense close up - as if the viewer was the size of a grain of rice on the face of the characters, reimagining their faces as worlds, their skin topography, with computer rendered characters and VR technology facilitating an otherwise impossible depth of field.

The narrative explores their relationships, past, and a tragic event; the only child in the family, dying in a car crash. It is a grief struck conversation over 4 days that closes with them deciding to put their cats to sleep, and commit collective suicide. This play contemplates mortality, kinship, intimacy and privacy as well the nature of close relationships between “othered” subjects and how intimacy is a site for radical transformation and conceptions of selfhood.

This project draws on Shani's family history, from her grandmother’s failed abortion in the labour camps during WW2, at the end of which her mother was born, through the patriarchal violence of the counterculture, to the present day. A play that places tragedy, and the miraculous as the opposing formative powers that shape their lives.

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released March 17, 2020
Soundtrack: Maxwell Sterling. Voice Actors: Ghost Child: Maya Lubinsky, Grandmother Eve, Mother, Aunt: Eva Eklöf, Oedipuss the Cat: Dasha Loyko

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Tai Shani London, UK

Tai Shani's multidisciplinary practice, comprising sculpture, performance, film, and installation, revolves around experimental narrative texts.
Shani's violent, erotic and fantastical images and theoretical prose explore the construction of subjectivity, excess and affects of the epic as the ground for a post-patriarchal realism. .

Tai Shani is a joint winner of the 2019 Turner Prize.
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