MIRA新伝統, the Tokyo-based efficiency and audiovisual task of Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, decipher a DIY theory-fiction, set in the back streets of Shibuya’s club district.
“A capacity future is suddenly hatching from a black floating egg in one of the dirtiest streets of Shibuya’s club district,” start Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray, who together make up Tokyo audiovisual efficiency entity, MIRA新伝統. Taken from their album of the exactsame name for James Ginzburg’s Subtext Recordings, ‘Noumenal Eggs’ is an workout in speculation, illustration mystical energy from Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Reza Negarestani, Mark Fisher and the early accelerationist approach of CCRU, while gesturing towards science fiction techniques for brand-new production, gotridof from the all seeing, all reaching arms of capital. “This is what ‘Noumenal Eggs’ are,” they explain, “untapped capacity lying outside of our understanding – however insomecases, hardlyever, they burst and the alternate truths they were holding are unintentionally diffused and experienced in the remarkable world. They are more mostlikely to be seen by individuals living in the margins and are susceptible to modified states of awareness.” Sharar Lazima, a design and starlet who frequently appears Japanese TELEVISION reveals and is important voice illuminating the fate of immigrants and minorities in Japan, stars as ‘the witness,’ a limited figure to whom a brand-new truth exposes itself to. “Rei, her long time professionalphotographer goodfriend, took the shots in one of those liminal backstreets we frequently usage to collect and beverage cheap conbini beverages together previously going to the club,” MIRA新伝統 describe.
“What is being revealed looks like a world of heat and entropy – of plastiglomerates and mucous,” MIRA新伝統 continue. “But what if this future is not truly the future however simply another location and time attempting to transfer itself into ours? Eggs that our neoliberal society was simply breeding for years or more so it might lastly start hatching now. Canceling all our possible futures for one which didn’t belong here – like a cuckoo egg. Was the system we had lived in for generations simply a giant hyperparasite hacking the desire-driven circuitries at work in humankind’s unconscious limbo and pushing us to produce unsustainably and versus our self-interest to prepare its physical place to the world? Shall we go on a mission to appearance for the eggs that were changed? Isn’t now the time to upgrade and complimentary ourselves from the parasite’s dendrites plugged deep in our minds?” Posing these concerns with a heady mix of FM and wavetable synthesis, regulated alien vocalisations, 3D-rendered alternative truth artefacts, weird gelatinous textures and impressionistic motion, MIRA新伝統 construct an environment absolutely eliminated from traditional human understanding, looking to relocation beyond the immanent, into the slippery unidentified. It’s the exactsame viewpoint they use to their efficiency occasions, in which they take control of night club areas to checkout styles such as post-humanity, post-capital and body-ownership through a ceremonial live program.
“For us, there is no magnificence in doing just efficiency art for galleries and organizations, with a well-read and frequently rich audience,” MIRA新伝統 assert. “We discover it more intriguing to intrude into the nightlife and make things takeplace. It can be trance, hyperpop, techno, or deconstructed club celebrations. Suddenly, around 2am, the DJing stops and the club changes itself into a short-lived Athenian theatre, releasing an fictional inbetween hyper-futurism and neo-mythology, to share a cathartic minute with the audience. The audience itself is rather young and usually comes from queer and underground neighborhoods. They are frequently really disappointed by the existing power in location and the increasing precarity of living in Tokyo. The concept is to welcome them to go for something more than just letting off steam through drinking and dosing upuntil the earlymorning. After the DJing reboots, the discussion about what simply occurred in the efficiency goes on in the smokingcigarettes area of the club, or in front the close-by practical shop. Some are psychological about it, some are ecstatic by the devices (medieval weapons are typically utilized), others desire to dig into the conceptual background and share their ideas about what they viewed to be the style. Some will block their calendars for the next efficiency and may even be a part of it in some methods, whether it is in developing brand-new outfits and devices, or assisting with the archives. They may even end up acting in it!”
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