THE NEON HIEROGLYPH REDUX ALIVE
A very special screening of Turner prize winner Tai Shani’s latest film ‘Neon Hieroglyph’ with a live scoring by composer Maxwell Sterling and narration by Molly Moody for Futur.Shock at FOLD in collaboration with Parrhesiades .
Wednesday 13th + Thursday 14th October, Doors open at 19:00 - 01:00
Performance starts promptly at 20:30
‘The Neon Hieroglyph’ is a 57 minute hallucination around Ergot and various historic feminised nodes and other orbital considerations, forming a series of poetic considerations on the fungus that grows on rye and other common grains from which LSD is derived. Travelling from the cellular to the galactic, from Palaeolithic cave markings to the optic markings left by drone photography in our internal eye, dancing plagues, communist psychedelic witches, hyper-sexual fungi, descents and ascents. The building of a house we will never live in, a house for our ghosts, where the gothic and the hallucinatory collide, where gothic affects and fractal dread form a mausoleum for psychedelic spectres.
Also the sun! Sun is a ghost that haunts the night!
Modernity makes witches of mystics and the figure of the witch is to me is a psychedelic one, a threshold between the natural and supernatural, between the material and metaphysical, like ergot, it is an agent that has both a material and immaterial life, a threshold between two realms. The witch is also the vessel of excess, her porosity to the divine becomes her permeability to evil and her pliancy not only makes here a communicative conduit as in the case of the mystics which are messengers, but the witch is the human embodiment of chaotic wickedness and dark powers, and powerful she is but she is also a wrecker of civilisation and morality.
Maxwell Sterling
Left: Maxwell Sterling Right: Molly Moody
Lockhart DJ Set
