In the context of their Art Now commission, artist duo Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) present a new performance entitled The Salt March. Featuring a new score for a brass quartet, the piece responds to our present histories with the loving force of non-violent protest.
Following the story of the film installation, The Hedge of Halomancy, a salt-divining courtesan leads a procession of brass players dressed in re-appropriated East India Company uniforms through the galleries. Inspired by the ubiquitous Indian wedding bands, this performance reflects on the legacies and entanglements of Empire and its colonies. Here, a contemporary score becomes a form of resistance, celebration and unification in a time of erasure, grief and division.
The Art Now exhibition will be open for viewing from 18.30. The performance will begin at 19.00.
Art Now is supported by The Bukhman Foundation. With additional support from the Art Now Supporters Circle and Tate Americas Foundation.
This event is organised by Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational in partnership with Hyundai Motor, with additional support from The Performance Activation Fund: Catherine Petitgas.
Composition: David Tappeser
Musicians: Danielle Price (tuba), Jai Patel (trombone), Sam Virdie (trumpet), Shanise Hall (trumpet)
Choreography: Jamila Johnson-Small
Hylozoic/Desires
Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) is an artist duo whose work combines poetry and music to conjure speculative futures and multiverses. H/D aspire toward a flat ontological ether in which all forms of life—stone, spirit, machine or human—are equal. They skew the linear imagination of time and space to produce divergences that elicit critical wonder. H/D’s research orbits around (non)place and histories of migration, transnationalism and environmental cosmism to learn from the multiple materialities of contemporary existence. They are concerned with the (poly)rhythms of love and the bea(s)t of belonging. Hylozoic/Desires use metaphor as an event, as a force of attraction that holds otherwise distant entities together. Hylozoic/Desires work has recently been exhibited at Serpentine, London; Desert X, CA; Shanghai Biennale; Biennale Gherdeina; Haus Der Kunst, Munich; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Swiss Institute, NYC; Serendipity, Goa; MACBA, Barcelona among others.
Himali Singh Soin
Himali Singh Soin is a writer and artist based between London and Delhi. She uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences and entanglements. In doing this, she thinks through ecological loss and the loss of home, seeking shelter somewhere in the radicality of love.
David Soin Tappeser
David Soin Tappeser is a drummer, composer and performance artist based between London and New Delhi. his practice explores socio-eco-spiritual-tempo-somatic dimensions of sound. his performances and compositions use rhythm to unearth, manipulate and deconstruct linear perceptions of time, interdependence and alterity. they hint at intercultural entanglements, parallel histories and extra-human frames of reference while thinking about environmental destruction and sociopolitical fissures.
