'Gods’ Facsimiles' is Rodeo’s first exhibition in London with Nour Mobarak. It is taking place in conjunction with her large-scale operatic installation 'Dafne Phono', which will be installed with Rodeo at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus in Summer 2023. 'Dafne Phono' is an interspecies performance installation of the very first opera, written in 1598: Jacobo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini’s 'La Dafne'. With this work, Mobarak is interested in continuing to explore the voice as material, and in creating spatialized sound and language objects out of the organic substance of mycelium. In this installation, all but one of the characters (Dafne,...
'Gods’ Facsimiles' is Rodeo’s first exhibition in London with Nour Mobarak. It is taking place in conjunction with her large-scale operatic installation 'Dafne Phono', which will be installed with Rodeo at the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus in Summer 2023.
'Dafne Phono' is an interspecies performance installation of the very first opera, written in 1598: Jacobo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini’s 'La Dafne'. With this work, Mobarak is interested in continuing to explore the voice as material, and in creating spatialized sound and language objects out of the organic substance of mycelium. In this installation, all but one of the characters (Dafne, Apollo, Venus, Eros, the Python, and the Chorus) is grown out of mycelium. Their lines each undergo a translation process with the aim to create an opera with the widest palette of vocal sounds, and are spoken from large-scale mycelial forms. Questions of language, repetition, decay, civilization, power, and metamorphosis are raised in this work that interweaves biology and speech.
The exhibition in London reinterprets the Sala Delle Nicchie, where the opera was first performed. Here, statuettes of many of the Gods in the opera were ensconced in niches surrounding the site of the performance.
