My Self in That Moment
Tickets
General Admission $30.00
Concession $20.00
Concession tickets are available to student card holders, seniors card holders, healthcare card holders and children under 16.
Dates
27-30 July 2022
Two shows per night
7pm and 9pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jessica Aszodi will perform all shows on Wednesday 27 July and Thursday 28 July
Duration 50 minutes
Venue
The Substation
1 Market Street
Newport
This event is wheelchair accessible and gender neutral accessible toilets are available.
Please be advised that this performance has high noise levels, some flashing lights, content unsuitable for children under 12 years of age, and (brief) nudity.
Photography/video are not permitted.
The Substation
Presented by The Substation and Chamber Made
Commissioned by The Substation
My Self in That Moment is a new hybrid performance work for an ensemble of 49 tablets and a solo vocalist, exploring the fragmented and distributed self in the digital age.
The swiftly evolving ability to replicate, deconstruct and distribute a person’s image and voice presents a swathe of possibilities and conundrums. The edges of self are increasingly frayed as our relationship with devices and systems becomes ever more entangled, fragmenting notions of ‘me’ and ‘mine’.
Interrogating questions around identity, agency, ownership and the myriad systems that lay beneath the distribution of data, My Self in That Moment has been built via a series of interviews with three vocalists, each reflecting on the voice and body and what it means to be digitally captured and archived.
“How much agency do I have of a past self that’s been funnelled through machines? How much of that is me? Well, I don’t know. I don’t know that.” — Tina Stefanou (interview extract).
Led by Chamber Made Artistic Director, Tamara Saulwick, with composition by Peter Knight, My Self in That Moment continues the company’s record of engaging with new forms and technologies in live performance and music. For My Self in That Moment Steve Berrick has developed a system where personal devices in the form of tablets are networked to function as a visual and sonic ensemble, opening up exciting possibilities for the spatialization of image and sound.
Featuring the recorded voices and images of three astonishing vocalist/collaborators, Jessica Aszodi, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and Tina Stefanou, My Self in That Moment also incorporates a rich visual language developed for the piece by photographer Sarah Walker and designers Amelia Lever-Davidson and Geoffrey Watson.
This premiere season at The Substation will be performed solo by Jessica Aszodi (every 7pm performance) and Tina Stefanou (every 9pm performance) in alternate performances.
NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jessica Aszodi will perform all shows (7pm and 9pm) on Wednesday 27 July and Thursday 28 July.
Creative Team
Concept & direction
Tamara Saulwick
