Narcissus Machine

The Narcissus Machine is a Site-Specific performance explores feelings of anxiety and frustration that occurred for us throughout the global pandemic. Set in the Greenwich foot tunnel, the audience is guided through an endlessly reverberant underworld by two unflinching guides. This piece was created in collaboration with artists Elias Tzikas and Matthieu Chazallet.

Using the underground as a stimulus, the artists wanted to explore how the process of journeying underground resembled the process of going into lockdown and emerging into a post pandemic world. As a collective their aim was to create an experiential piece that placed the audience as active members of the piece. Using a multidisciplinary approach, they were inspired by the nature of both sound and movement within the tunnel space to explore these different states. Butoh movement practice functioned as a basis for our movement they wanted to use slowness as a means to disrupt and play with the audiences’ perception of time and space. They also used sound, particularly the nature of tunnels as a medium to add more distortion to this experience.