'My Bodily Remains', by Tai Shani
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Date
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Location
Auditorium 3 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationFilm in English with subtitles in Portuguese.
The talk will be in English, with simultaneous translation to Portuguese, and interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language.
Streaming Sala 3, limited to 50 seats.
In My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, And All The Bodily Remains That Ever Were, And Ever Will Be (2023) Tai Shani creates a fantastical series of filmic tableaux drawing from various genres, ranging from horror to technicolour cinematic dreams. It features four protagonists: two characters called ‘Them who Love’, whose relationship is unclear and speak of love in an almost spiritual way; ‘The Ghost for Revolution’, who recounts somatic histories of fascism; and ‘The Reader of The Book of Love’, who reads historical quotes from individuals or groups that were involved in non non-violent action.
The artist was inspired by classic works of literature such as ‘Destroy, She Said’ by Marguerite Duras, by the writings of scholars such as Jackie Wang, and by works of filmmakers such as Jacques Rivette. The film is a poetic meditation on various historical resistance movements and groups, on anti-supremacism, intersectional queer feminism, communism and revolutionary thinking.
My Bodily Remains includes digital animations by Shani’s long-term collaborator Adam Sinclair. It features an original score developed to incorporate gamelan instruments, composed by Maxwell Sterling, also a long-term collaborator of the artist, and by Richard Fearless, from the band ‘Death in Vegas’.
Biographies
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Tai Shani
Tai Shani’s (b. London, 1976) artistic practice, comprising performance, film, photography, and installation, uses experimental writing as a guiding method. Oscillating between theoretical concepts and visceral details, Shani’s texts attempt to create poetic coordinates in order to cultivate, fragmentary cosmologies of marginalized nonsovereignty. Tai Shani is the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. Her work has been shown extensively in Britain and internationally.
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Bianca Chu
Bianca Chu (b. New York, lives between London and Lisbon) is a sound practitioner, writer, researcher and anthropologist of art. She is strategic advisor and representative of the Turnbull Studio, serves on the advisory board of POR.TA Art Association, Portugal, and was co-chair of the Tate Young Patrons, London (2020-2023). Bianca has been published in Umbigo Magazine, Portugal and contributed with a new chapter on Kim Lim in the forthcoming monographic exhibition catalogue published by the Hepworth Wakefield and Lund Humphries.
Programme
18:00 / Welcoming
18:05 / Presentation of the film
19:05 / Talk
19:45 / Discussion
20:00 / Cocktail
Credits
Written and Directed
Tai Shani
Direction of Photography
Mary Farbrother
Producers
Jacqui Davies
Jen
The Ghost for Revolution
Molly Moody
Them Who Love
Candice Nembhard
Jo Kukathas
The Reader of The Book of Love
Maya Lubinsky
Visual Effects and Co-Editor
Adam Sinclair
Modelling Support
Lotti V Closs
Score
Maxwell Sterling e Richard Fearless
Costume Designer
Matt King
Costume Assistant
Shaylyn Gilheaney
Ghost For Revolution and The Reader of The Book of Love Costume
GmbH
Them Who Love Costume
Richard Malone
Additional Costumes provided
Contemporary Wardrobe Collection
Additional Costumes made
Mika Lapid
Director’s Assistant
Mika Lapid
Drone Operator
Chris Wilkinson
Camera Operator
James Davis
Camera Car Driver
Johnny Paliev
1st AC
Roze Stokkel
1st AC
James Hill
2nd AC
Andy Jones
Gaffer
Tanya Ringer
Spark
Klaudia Borbely
Grip
Carl "Lump" Dunn
Picture Car
Adam Standing
Colour Grade
Purple Martin Studio
Colourist
Samantha Day
SFX
Dan Martin
Silicone Artist
Charlotte Lewis
Runner
Becca Halliwell-Sutton
Runner
Dora Perini
ADR Technician
Harry Murdoch
Score Sound Engineer
Nick Powell
Lenses Provided
One Stop Films
Equipment Provided
VMI
ADR Facilities Provided
Somerset House
Special Thanks
Roger K. Burton, Benjamin Huseby and Serhat Işik, Richard Malone, Jordan Hemingway, Somerset House, Jason and Charlie at Chiselhurst Caves, Gathering, Charlie Fox, Bianca Chu, Anne Duffau, Aura Satz, Rod Hamlin
Commissioners
Contemporary Arts Center – Cincinnati
Art Night – Dundee
KM21 – The Hague
POR:TA – Lisbon
Support
Southbank Centre – London
Creative Scotland – Edinburgh
The Henry Moore Foundation – Hadham
Luminous Art Foundation – Lisbon
Museum of London, with support from Arts Council England.
Partnership
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