SpringCity 30642: 4A LAB Residency
When
Monday, 30 September 2024, 1:00am
Location
4A LAB
181-187 Hay St, Haymarket
SpringCity 30642 is a multisensory interactive game-performance by MaggZ, situated within body, movement, sound, materiality and technology. In Spring City (Kunming, Yunnan, China) in the year of 30642, between an awakening dystopia and a lubricative utopia, [∞] is the only currency to keep breathing - to breathe is to join the game. To enter the game of [∞]:
∞you must enter honestly
∞you must enter unreservedly
∞you must shed all the impurities
∞you must devote
∞you must hold steady and make love to the devils
∞you must be willing to die again, and again, and again
∞you must carry a sword with the tip of your clitoris
During the one-week residency at 4A Lab, MaggZ will transform the space into a game-design laboratory, to further investigate the idea of world-building and heterotopia, through diasporic minority-Chinese lens. As such, to recontextualise localised myth and ancestral practices of Kunming, in post-internet landscape with body, sound, both physical and digital installation. On the final day of the residency, there is a soft showing of the interactive exhibition + game-performance open for preview in the evening. This is an invitation-only event, with a live 30-mins game-performance by MaggZ.
Artists
Top image:
MaggZ_Ama(2)
Curation: @magg._z & @afterhours.zone
Creative direction: @magg._z & @amajln
Set design: @amajln + assisted by @romanebu
Costume: @the_biggest_swamp_ever
Photography & post-production: @amajln
HMUA: @magg._z
Supported by: @afterhours.zone