The GHOST of the YOSHI'S ISLAND at SARC

What happens to us after our physical bodies die? Do machines have souls? How can a computer game help going through a difficult emotional experience? How do we react when confronted with feelings we are trying to avoid?

PINSLEEP, a Space Traveller looking at music from a perspective of Cosmos, is addressing those questions alongside her band of machines. The Lyrics are an adaptation of Stephen Sexton’s poems from his book ‘If All The World And Love Were Young’. Live Visuals by Jia-Rey Chang are forming an imaginative connection between the audience and performers.

‘If all the World and Love Were Young’, from the poem’s collection first edition (Penguin Books, 2019):

‘When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass, to be in two places at once, to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving, otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels of Super Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world, and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. His remarkable debut is a daring exploration of memory, greed and the necessity of the unreal’

Featuring live Visuals from Dr. Jia-Rey Chang: Constantly changing images interacting with music in real time - mainly using pure colors and geometric shapes — build an abstract and dynamic immersive environment on four surrounding screens, forming an imaginative connection between the audience and the performers.

For more details see SARC: PERFORMANCE: PINSLEEP (Aga Olek)