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VRAL is currently showcasing Firas Shehadeh’s Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another — Rehearsal (2023). To contextualize his work, we are looking at several of his most recent project. We began yesterday with There, Where You Are Not (2022), a series of performative screening on the nature of digital culture. Today, we continue our exploration of There, Where You Are Not.
We are pleased to present a second component of Firas Shehadeh’s ambitious 2022 multimedia project, There, Where You Are Not: T,WYAN_appendix, abbreviated as T,WYAN_appendix. Although the artist describes it as an improvisational sound performance, T,WYAN_appendix is something else altogether: A comprehensive auditory odyssey that delves into the multi-layered landscape of contemporary digital culture. By meticulously weaving together sonic and visual elements, this element of Shehadeh’s larger multimedia project serves as a visceral expedition into memes, video games, network spirituality, emotional landscapes, hybridity, and additional scapes that inform our online discourse. The performance was originally presented on October 15 2022 at the Singapore Art Museum as part of the Singapore Viennale 2022 Named Natasha. An excerpt is available here.
T,WYAN_appendix also exists as a 32’ machinima piece, intended as a sophisticated companion to Meme Without Irony, another machinima crafted within the environment of Grand Theft Auto V. T,WYAN_appendix serves as a revelatory exposition of the hidden mechanics of video gaming. It focuses on the “game before (under?) the game” or perhaps, one might argue, the “real game,” pulling back the curtain on the intricacies that generally remain concealed from the end-user.
Matteo Bittanti
Work cited
Firas Shehadeh
There, Where You Are Not, sound performance, improvisation, various lengths, hereby presented as a digital video, color, sound, 32’ 26”, 2022, Palestine
Firas Shehadeh
The View From ‘No Man's Land’, print, edition of 300, softcover, 204 pages, 2020, 104 x 176 mm.
All images and videos courtesy of the Artist
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