Artist name: Anna Nazo

Image: Flame 2.0

Edition: 1 of 1

Collection

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Caption

Performance for the Entanglement: Just Gaming, RCA Visual Cultures Lecture Series, Royal College of Art, Zoom/ London, UK, 25th June 2020, 0.10’. Flame 2.0 is a Zoom streamed 360 digital-physical AV performance presented by Anna Nazo’s avatar ‘a Phoenicis (Ankaa)’. The work involves spoken word poetry co-written with AI, sound and imagery that are computer generated (CGI) in real time from artist's brainwave data (EEG), and drone performance. Using a 360 degree imaging archive, the work engages in a live conversation with its earlier iterations including Flame, a performance for Stay LIVE At Home programme, organised by Performistanbul, Live-streamed on Zoom and Instagram @annanazo, Istanbul, Turkey / London, UK, 3rd May 2020, 0.20’; and Undulation, a performance for So remember the liquid ground, a public program in a partnership between the RCA CCA and Gasworks, curated by Benjamin Darby, Yoojin Kang, Akis Kokkinos, Angelina Li, Lenette Lua and Louise Nason, Online/ London, UK, 15th June 2020, 0.20’. Artist Commission, Gasworks & RCA CCA, London, UK, 2020. The work reflects on themes of otherness, sensuousness and relationship with the digital in an age of isolation/ global pandemic. Through the notion of virtual flux, it looks at the way the material and the sensuous shapeshift and become the flow of digital matter, which enables sensuous encounters of multi-reality and ecology of multiplicity of selves.