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Thu 10 – Sat 26 Nov 2022
A LIVE THEATRE, PAINES PLOUGH & SYNERGY THEATRE PROJECT co-production
An astonishing true story
ART
Live Theatre, Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 3DQ
0191 232 1232 www.live.org.uk
MYTHMACHINE
AT BALTIC, GATESHEAD
As part of BALTIC’s ongoing exhibition strand exploring play, they will present the fascinating Mythmachine by artist Sahej Rahal, on display from the 24th September 2022 until the 3rd September 2023. Mythmachine comes from the future and will transform and expand in response to players. It is a site for the rehearsal of cohabitation between human and non-human systems through speech, song and rhythm. This new body of work has been conceived as an immersive virtual playground that responds to chaos, luck and chance. Primarily a storyteller, Sahej Rahal weaves together fact and fiction to create counter-mythologies that question narratives, shaping the present. His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI programmes, drawing from various sources ranging from legends to science fiction, creating scenarios where beings emerge from the cracks in our civilisation. Rahal received a Diploma in Fine Arts in 2011 from the Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in Mumbai. He is a celebrated artist who has participated in both solo and group exhibitions including the recent Gwangju Biennale, the Liverpool Biennial, the Kochi Biennale, the Vancouver Biennale, MACRO Museum Rome, Kadist SF, ACCA Melbourne and CCA Glasgow. His work has seen him receive the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant, the Digital Earth Fellowship, and the first Human- Machine Fellowship organized by Junge Akademie ADK. His exhibition, Ancestors, is currently on view at the JNAF gallery in the CSMVS Museum in Mumbai. BALTIC has recently celebrated its 20th birthday with a programme of
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By Ric Renton