W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3
a performance by Tai Shani
This fantastical new project consists of a re-working of 'World on a Wire', Rainer Werner Fassbinder's television adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye's science fiction novel, 'Simulacron 3'. To mark the dimensional, space-time shift phenomenon due to occur that night 'W.O.W. Noumenon Dilation: Reduced to 3' is a live teleportation of Fassbinder's anti-hero from 'The New Orpheum Theatre', a fictional cinema, to the magnificent, art deco auditorium of the Rio Cinema in Dalston. Travelling through degrees of fiction and temporality, he will materialise into three time machines, three body doubles, collapsing, colliding and forever reproduced. The performance incorporates a specially commissioned film by LA based artist Damon Packard, CCTV footage, animations, a Fassbinder Chorus Line and a Greek chorus. This piece continues on from a series of large-scale, cinematic performances that contain science fiction themes, such as time travel and parallel universe realities. Tai Shani's work explores the structure of fiction, the cinematic memory and its corruption of innate memory as well as the relationship between various mediated and simulatory channels, the limits of their agency and the 'real'.