MIASMA video, installation, and performance by Hannah Rose Stewart and Blackhaine was on at Berlin’s Trauma Bar Und Kino on October 12, 2022.
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Interdisciplinary artist Stewart joined forces with experimental musician, rapper and choreographer Tom Heyes to create an immersive A/V experience invoking the grotesque, absurd and taboo provocations of Japanese dance theatre Butoh, along with touches of 3D game design and neo-noir film. It’s central motif of a ghostly white car in an eerily desolate environment follows the central theme of “lostness”, activated by live interventions, music, and filmography designed computer graphics game engine Unreal Engine 5 by Filip Setmanuk.
Set in an unnamed coastal town in the two artists’ Northern England and a gesture to late-k-punk philosopher Mark Fisher’s writings on failed futures Ghosts of My Life, characters and actors “stagger past illegible signs of defunct businesses in a town that seems compact yet eerily vacuous.”**