Flow My Tears, the Artist Said 丨Opening Performance
Time: 2015.11.21, 15:00
Artists：MHP，What's Media Lab
Venue: Chronus Art Center
Address:Building 18, No 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai
About the Performance
Chronus Art Center(CAC) has invited the Shanghai-based electronic music artist Ma Haiping(MHP) and What’s Media Lab to collaborate on the opening performance of AL and AL: Interstellar Stella, the last exhibition in a series of screen-based works organized by Chronus Art Center. The performance will bring the viewrs into the fantasy scenes of the film through the interaction and combination of live images and music during the event.
About Interstella Stella
Interstellar Stella features a 12’17’’ cinematic work that combines live action performance with computer-generated environments to create fantasy worlds and dream landscapes in which a child model embarks on a journey of discovery inside a labyrinth formed by her own advertising pictures. Ostensibly laden with science fiction metaphors of transfiguration and rebirth, myths and symbols, and further embedded with car crash spectacles, faceless men in uniforms, billboard stars and moving shadows, the film stages a parallax narcissus and links the origins of paparazzi with observations on the extreme results of mediated desire.
Whilst composited in stunning computer-generated imagery, Interstellar Stella renders the harsh reality of synthetic times and a digital world in flux. It thus acts as a mirror of technology itself, reminding us of both the promises and perils of technological seduction. Through its dizzying perspectives and the use of dense exotic imagery, signs and symbols, the film recalls Guy Debord’s thesis on spectacle and the image-saturated, mediated world in his Society of the Spectacle, and Baudrillard’s notion of the "precession of simulacra" as such.
About MHP
Born in 1981 of Shanghai, Ma haiping (aka MHP), a senior musician. During the past 14 years, his music covers the avant-garde music, experimental, electronic dance music, soundtrack for visual arts and contemporary dance,etc. No matter from the music genre or the production technic ,he is a epitome of the development of Chinese electronic music scene. MHP is called “The son of Shanghai techno” for his music revealed a unique sense of screen and science fiction imagery. In recent years, he actively promoting the avant-garde music culture of China, organizing international exchange performances and academic lectures.
About What’s Media Lab
What's Media Lab is the team which is focus on the new media art experimentmaking and exhibition.The team is consists of the most famous new media arts among the country.
The lab has taken the study of new media art for a long time.They are absorbed in the exploration and practice of the software and hardware in new media project.It aims at creating a brand-new art, design and commerce interactive integrated mode.
Lab is focus on the virtual reality、interactive divices, new media narrative projects' creation design and the fusion achievement of commerce.
