How does contemporary media use aesthetics to blur information with emotion and imagination? What happens when “being informed” becomes fused with desire and weaponised in the war for attention?
London-based artist Krystle Patel presents A Mating Game, a site-specific installation and a series of open rehearsals that dig into the war for your attention. The project explores what it means to be informed today, in a world where language has been flattened by digital interfaces and where truth now comes with an aesthetic.
Each open rehearsal functions as a live performance, transforming the exhibition space into a rehearsal room, a space for interruption, reflection, and experimentation. Working with non-actors and guided by a play written by Patel, the sessions open up language to the symbolic and corporeal, undermining the algorithmic compression of meaning.
Visitors are invited to witness and take part in these rehearsals, to think through what it means to be informed, and to use liveness to explore how emotion and imagination have penetrated informational language.
All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to the performers involved in the open rehearsals. Performances are ticketed (NOTAFLOF – No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds). If you’re unable to secure a ticket, please get in touch at info@thekoppelproject.com
Cast:
Elisa Basili
Rebecca Edwards
Akinsola Thomas Lawanson
Chris MacInnes
Dipesh Patel
Orsola Zane
Support :
David Ferrando Giraut
Carle Gent
Kim Kohlmann
Giuli Lago
Kineret Laurie
Esther Leslie
Mariette Moor
Jacob Taylor
Phoebe von Held
For more information about the project, visit: https://thekoppelproject.com/events/a-mating-game-krystle-patel
