MIRA新伝統, the Tokyo-based efficiency and audiovisual venture of Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, unravel a DIY theory-fiction, set within the again alleys of Shibuya’s membership district.
“A possible future is abruptly hatching from a black floating egg in one of many dirtiest alleys of Shibuya’s membership district,” start Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, who collectively make up Tokyo audiovisual efficiency entity, MIRA新伝統. Taken from their album of the identical title for James Ginzburg’s Subtext Recordings, ‘Noumenal Eggs’ is an train in hypothesis, drawing esoteric power from Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Reza Negarestani, Mark Fisher and the early accelerationist philosophy of CCRU, whereas gesturing in the direction of science fiction methods for brand spanking new manufacturing, faraway from the all seeing, all reaching tentacles of capital. “That is what ‘Noumenal Eggs’ are,” they describe, “untapped potential mendacity outdoors of our notion – however generally, hardly ever, they burst and the alternate realities they have been holding are by chance subtle and witnessed within the phenomenal world. They’re extra prone to be seen by individuals residing within the margins and are susceptible to altered states of consciousness.” Sharar Lazima, a mannequin and actress who repeatedly seems Japanese TV exhibits and is important voice illuminating the destiny of immigrants and minorities in Japan, stars as ‘the witness,’ a marginal determine to whom a brand new actuality reveals itself to. “Rei, her very long time photographer good friend, took the pictures in a type of liminal backstreets we regularly use to collect and drink low cost conbini drinks collectively earlier than going to the membership,” MIRA新伝統 clarify.
“What’s being unveiled appears to be like like a world of warmth and entropy – of plastiglomerates and mucus,” MIRA新伝統 proceed. “However what if this future shouldn’t be actually the long run however simply one other place and time making an attempt to switch itself into ours? Eggs that our neoliberal society was simply incubating for many years or extra so it might lastly begin hatching now. Canceling all our potential futures for one which didn’t belong right here – like a cuckoo egg. Was the system we had lived in for generations only a big hyperparasite hacking the desire-driven circuitries at work in humanity’s unconscious limbo and urgent us to provide unsustainably and towards our self-interest to arrange its bodily venue to the world? We could go on a quest to search for the eggs that have been changed? Isn’t now the time to improve and free ourselves from the parasite’s dendrites plugged deep in our minds?” Posing these questions with a heady mix of FM and wavetable synthesis, modulated alien vocalisations, 3D-rendered various actuality artefacts, unusual gelatinous textures and impressionistic motion, MIRA新伝統 assemble an surroundings completely faraway from typical human notion, trying to transfer past the immanent, into the slippery unknown. It’s the identical philosophy they apply to their efficiency occasions, during which they take management of night time membership areas to discover themes comparable to post-humanity, post-capital and body-ownership by a ritualistic stay present.
“For us, there isn’t any glory in doing solely efficiency artwork for galleries and establishments, with a well-educated and sometimes rich viewers,” MIRA新伝統 assert. “We discover it extra fascinating to intrude into the nightlife and make issues occur. It may be trance, hyperpop, techno, or deconstructed membership events. Instantly, round 2am, the DJing stops and the membership transforms itself into a brief Athenian theatre, deploying an imaginary between hyper-futurism and neo-mythology, to share a cathartic second with the viewers. The viewers itself is fairly younger and usually comes from queer and underground communities. They’re usually very pissed off by the present energy in place and the rising precarity of residing in Tokyo. The thought is to ask them to go for one thing greater than solely letting off steam by ingesting and dosing till the morning. After the DJing restarts, the dialog about what simply occurred within the efficiency goes on within the smoking area of the membership, or in entrance the close by handy retailer. Some are emotional about it, some are excited by the equipment (medieval weapons are sometimes used), others wish to dig into the conceptual background and share their ideas about what they perceived to be the theme. Some will block their calendars for the subsequent efficiency and would possibly even be part of it in some methods, whether or not it’s in creating new costumes and equipment, or serving to with the archives. They could even find yourself performing in it!”
‘Noumenal Eggs’ is taken from the album of the identical title, out now on Subtext Recordings. Yow will discover MIRA新伝統 on Instagram.
Noumenal Eggs Credit:
Digicam – Rei
Efficiency – Sharar Lazima, Honami Higuchi
Music and Video – MIRA新伝統
Pictures – Dag
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