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20 Minutes of Action

by Nwando Ebizie

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Enter cross the threshold

A mythopoetic (disjointed)
Afrofuturist land
scape

A reality fragmented with layers upon layers, opening onto

more layers

A glittering
dark
softness

The piece, 20 Minutes of Action is built along a ritual structure inspired by Ebizie’s research into Haitian Vodou. As such it contains influences from Haitian rhythms including the Petwo (which has a distinctive tripping shuffle in the bass and is reimagined through the image of a hall of mirrors), but also contains inspirations from artists such as Techno Afrofuturists Drexciya, Tom Richards/Broken Patchbay (who contributed some samples from his DIY synths) vogue music and a twisted dream-like sample from the Tchaikovsky’s Grand Pas de Deux (The Nutcracker).

The sound palette is based on the neurological disorder, Visual Snow, as the artist Ebizie has the condition. Visual Snow is a neurological disorder characterized by a continuous visual disturbance that occupies the entire visual field and is described as tiny flickering dots that resemble the noise of a detuned analogue television.

THE QUIETUS: Her voice, experienced sitting in a temporary area, a place to occupy before you cross the threshold into a labyrinth that is mythopoetic, Afrofuturist, disjointed, glittered and hyper-layered ...The work makes manifest the neurological disorder known as “Visual Snow” that disrupts the field of vision with interference and static, filling the known world with the flickering dots of a detuned television, gaps filled with a sense of depersonalisation and anxiety. Within the alternate reality of the installation, our understanding of vision is tested through a transient manifestation of the artist’s body in the performance, “20 Minutes of Action”.

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released January 11, 2019

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Nwando Ebizie Todmorden, UK

Afrofuturist sonic visions
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speculative fictions and alternate realities
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radical change and transformation

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