Archive, For the Future // A Simulation For the Situation

RCA Film Night Series

630-8PM

RCA Gorvy Theatre

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FILM SCREENING + LIVE PERFORMANCES + OPEN DISCUSSION

(exposition) (rising action) (climax)

"A night of three-act narrative fiction in the reality of living."

-PAPRIKA

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/// 9 performances artists: to be doing work///

/// 3 acts: to be seen ///

/// 1 film: to be played ///

/// 1 shot: to be taken ///

/// 1 night: to be together ///

*Please note that this is a public event - no booking is necessary but make sure to arrive 10min ahead in the Dyson Café (1st floor of the Dyson Building-SW11 4AN)*

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YIFEI GONG//MATT MAHONY-PAGE//EMILIA DEMETRIOU//DEMELZA TOY TOY//CATERINA GOBBI//ROSIE GIBBENS//BORAM MOON//AFASIA YURI//MASAYUKI WATANABE

* This event is an extended program from the multimedia performance art essay, 'I COME IN THE END, THE BEST IS OVER', that took place in the Dyson Gallery, December 21st, 2017.

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'We are talking on top of it. It's another way to archive our work in front of an audience'. Emilia Demetriou

'Photography has got its own agenda.' Demelza Toy Toy

'How do you feel?' Masayuki Watanabe

'For the second time, they will hear what you have said.' Rosie Gibbens

'A discussion is curated.' Yifei Gong

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Is there an end? How to see the disparity between looking at live art and its archive?

Where is the future, while "future" is now? Where is the present, while "now" is in the past? How come we are still not there, yet?

Is documentation a currency? What's a collective?

The archive shapes the standard and hence creates limits for the future. That’s only one way of defining archive.

Is there a generous connection between the past, the present, and the future?

As artists, are we consuming the public to enjoy, or making the performance work more/less available?

If there are more examples the archive could offer, then there are more options opening for the artists to exercise. The archive can be used for as many examples it can have.

This is what there was, you decide what's good, not this is what's good.

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'Archive, For the Future // A Simulation for The Situation’ is hosted by PAPRIKA COLLECTIVE, curated by 

Ada Hao & Friends.