The Linguistic Errantry is a stochastic sound environment and social experiment in a virtual setting. Fourteen giraffes are set to randomly roam a surreal land full of symbolistic landscape and omnipresent surveillance cameras. Each giraffe sings a measure deconstructed from L’Internationale. When two giraffes collide, they adopt each other’s tune. The piece reimagines the Tower of Babel with the arbitrary nature of history: the consolidation and disintegration of sovereigns, an anticipated revolution to be generated by mere chance, or a parallel universe where nothing ever happens, only entropy reigns supreme.
Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator and writer based in New York. Xiao creates theatrical installations with nonlinear narratives that often extend beyond the fourth wall. Her work explores the immense power and inherent inadequacy of language through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. She finds solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people.
Xiao’s work has been shown at Queens Museum, New Media Caucus, Piksel Festival, Sound Scene at Hirshhorn Museum, HERE Arts Center, NARS Foundation, HASTAC Conference, UKAI Projects, The American Society for Theatre Research, University of Porto, Osaka University of Art, New Adventures in Sound Art, Pelham Art Center, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, among others. She has received grants and support from NYSCA Electronic Media & Film | Wave Farm, Brooklyn Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.
Website
tansyxiao.com
The Linguistic Errantry is a stochastic sound environment and social experiment in a virtual setting. Fourteen giraffes are set to randomly roam a surreal land full of symbolistic landscape and omnipresent surveillance cameras. Each giraffe sings a measure deconstructed from L’Internationale. When two giraffes collide, they adopt each other’s tune. The piece reimagines the Tower of Babel with the arbitrary nature of history: the consolidation and disintegration of sovereigns, an anticipated revolution to be generated by mere chance, or a parallel universe where nothing ever happens, only entropy reigns supreme.
Tansy Xiao is an artist, curator and writer based in New York. Xiao creates theatrical installations with nonlinear narratives that often extend beyond the fourth wall. Her work explores the immense power and inherent inadequacy of language through the assemblage of stochastic audio and recontextualized objects. She finds solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people.
Xiao’s work has been shown at Queens Museum, New Media Caucus, Piksel Festival, Sound Scene at Hirshhorn Museum, HERE Arts Center, NARS Foundation, HASTAC Conference, UKAI Projects, The American Society for Theatre Research, University of Porto, Osaka University of Art, New Adventures in Sound Art, Pelham Art Center, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, among others. She has received grants and support from NYSCA Electronic Media & Film | Wave Farm, Brooklyn Arts Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center.
Website
tansyxiao.com
