THE NAURU ELEGIES
A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture
As the final instalment in his Experimenta Utopia Now exhibition with architect Annie K Kwon The Nauru Elegies, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky will give an exclusive live performance in Melbourne’s iconic Docklands warehouse, Shed 4. Fusing a large scale video installation with a digital DJ set, Miller will also incorporate a string quartet into this arresting multimedia performance.
A small island in the South Pacific, Nauru’s utopian geography and landscape belie a dystopic economy and society. Devastated by failed investments, unemployment and strip-mining, Nauru turned to offshore financing, and the creation of “virtual banks” in the 1990’s as a means of earning sorely needed foreign currency. As such, it mirrors tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
Nauru has been mined throughout the last century for its phosphate deposits, which once occupied 90% of the island and have now been almost entirely exhausted. From 2001 to 2008 the island was paid by Australia to accommodate a detention centre for asylum seekers who were trying to enter Australia.
Paul D. Miller translates the colonial and postcolonial issues facing the digital economy of the 21st century into a video with sound score performed by a string quartet.
Arguably no one is more responsible for propagating and embodying the idea of the deejay as "artist" than DJ Spooky, whose ambitious, elaborate, often hypnotic soundscapes have been notable as much for their eclectic imagination as for their postmodern intellectualism. Chicago Tribune
Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky - The Nauru Elegies
8pm, Friday March 5th
Shed 4, North Wharf Road
Docklands, Melbourne
$25 / $20 concession
www.moshtix.com.au / 1300 GET TIX
Annie K Kwon & Paul D Miller – The Nauru Elegies
Exhibition showing Friday February 19th – Saturday March 6th
Blindside Gallery
Level 7, Room 14 Nicholas Building,
37 Swantson St Melbourne, (03) 9650 0093
http://www.experimenta.org
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