The Master of the Scrovegni Chapel Choir presents Kylie White’s Manifesto of a Digital Relationship is an exhibition and performance by Sam George &Lisa Radford.
25 frescoes, 152 emails, 2 actors and one opera singer.
Using the manuscript of an affair conducted over email between 11 April and December 25, 2011 Sam George & Lisa Radford attempted to find a materiality in the space between Melbourne and San Diego mediated by technology in plaster, pigment, voice and time.
The performances on January 25, an atomised opera, utilised the time the emails were sent to explore the space of desire and doubt in choral form.
An opera singer chanted the verbal descriptions of the attachments (literal and figural) mostly images, that Kylie and David send to each other over the 9 month period.
Attachments is an accompanying booklet which contains a collection of fragments from a chart documenting the position of the sun in relation to Melbourne and San Diego based on the time attachments were sent as found in the as yet unpublished manuscript Manifesto of an Electronic Relationship by Kylie White and used as reference to produce the accompanying 25 frescoes in the exhibition.
This document accompanies the exhibition The Master of the Scrovegni Chapel Choir presents Kylie White’s Manifesto of an Electronic Relationship by Sam George and Lisa Radford at Caves Gallery, 15th to 25th January, 2020 On Saturday January 25, 2020 at Caves Gallery, Room 13, Level 8, The Nicholas Building (37 Swanston Street), Melbourne the Chapel Choir comprising of members Andrew Kershaw, Ange Arabatzis and Emma Hall, performed the script contained twice. In the performance, the contents of the attachments are sung.
Special thanks and love to the choir Ange Arabatzis, Emma Hall and Andrew Kershaw; Ezz Monem for photographic documentation, Jordan Halsall the Go Pro Pro; Anna Varendorff our Bell Technician, Storm Gold Master of Caves and lastly Kylie White - our muse
