JENNIFER TAYLOR
Portal
‘Portal’ also featured in the evening event on Saturday night in the church. The sound which played from inside this golden sphere is an extract from: ‘Let it All Wash Over’ by t l k.
The full-length track can be found here: tlkvox.bandcamp.com
VENUE
7. St Michael and All Angels, East Coker
Fri 23 – Sat 24 May, 10am – 5pm
Sun 25 May, 10am – 4pm
A glowing giant sphere spills out an eclectic mass of bizarre clutter onto the floor: low-tech shiny objects, tangled wiring, old electronics, and discarded novelty ephemera. This human-scale performative object tempts the viewer inside with sound and internal illuminations, almost as an autonomous robotic life-form. Reminiscent of religious regalia and ceremonial objects, this golden orb is over-sized like a pantomime prop, with the aesthetic of cheap fake gold that satirises these colonial rituals of power.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jennifer Taylor works with live performance, film and installation to explore ritualistic behaviour, systems of control and post-human possibilities. By merging ancient mysticism with sci-fi futurism, she creates absurd narratives with ambiguous fictional realities. For her anarchic live events, groups of performers in illuminated theatrical costumes, join her to re-enact historical fertility festivals and elaborate make-believe ceremonies of transformation, within colourful immersive stage sets.
Jennifer was born in Pembrokeshire and is now based in Cardiff. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London and the Ruskin School, University of Oxford. She has completed the g39 Fellowship with the Freelands Artist Programme, the Stella Fellowship at Castro Projects Rome and the Creative Wales Fellowship at the British School at Rome. Recent projects include Exolaris, Freelands Foundation, (London, 2021); Sentinel, KARST, (Plymouth, 2021); Materia Nova, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, (Rome, 2021); and Lunar Dawn, g39, (Cardiff, 2020).