FUGUE | 2023 | PERFORMANCE 20’,
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY NOAM REZGUI
FUGUE | 2023 | PERFORMANCE 20’,
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY NOAM REZGUI
FUGUE | 2023 | PERFORMANCE 20’,
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY NOAM REZGUI
FUGUE | 2023 | PERFORMANCE 20’,
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY NOAM REZGUI
Fugue is a transmedia performance exploring the act of running away as a form of resistance.
In the video game at the core of the project, the player takes on the role of a marron (a term used in slavery context to describe a slave who has run away from his master’s plantation). The performance takes the form of an immersive video game screening inside a sculptural installation. The sculptures are items, masks of some NPCs present in the game. The screening is accompanied a musical performance played on synths, controllers and Infra-red theremin.
The marron is a historical figure often found in literary and theoretical texts, notably in the writings of authors such as Toni Morrisson, Édouard Glissant and theorist Fred Moten. The fugitive slave is a figure often found in the works of artists and writers associated with so-called Afrofuturism. In the universes imagined by Detroit-based techno band Drexciya the Drexciyans are a people of underwater creatures, born of pregnant slaves thrown overboard between Africa and America during the slave trade. These children, destined to die, survive to create an underwatercommunity somewhere in the abyss of the Atlantic Ocean, far from their oppressors.
Like the Drexcians who sink into the abyss, the video game character also travels through hidden, underground world where he can escape. The Forest, The cave, The Quarries. These virtual spaces are places of escape. These virtual spaces are places of dissidence for the character, worlds in which alternative histories seem to find their place.
