CINDY ISLAM:
BEDROOM FREQUENCIES
360 VR VERSION
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FLAT VERSION
PREMIERE: IMMERSIVE VR FILM
Thu 27 May 2021
20:15 BST (30 mins)
+ 2D version on demand 28-29 May on demand
ACCESS: The work is an interactive 360 film which is highly visual and does not contain any spoken text.
Bedroom Frequencies renders a virtual reality experience of a biographic narrative about a young girl growing up in a strict and violent household. Going out, partying or attending mixed gendered environments were prohibited, and with the rest of the home hostile, the girl had nowhere but a small bedroom. It was here she found a safe sense of freedom - performing in front of the mirror, using the body and sound together in synchronicity to combat feelings of trauma and isolation. A space for imagination and dreaming, where she would formulate stories of love and passion, in the hope that one day her thoughts could breed a different reality.
Bedroom Frequencies is about being alone in bravery and vulnerability. Where the mind can transcend walls and the restraints of the body. A place to be free from the expectations of the outside world and a vortex into creating other worlds.
This virtual reality experience conveys sound, light, textures and movement, whilst giving the audience agency to roam freely within the interiors of imagination.
Cindy Islam is one of the artist’s most recent pseudonyms. The artist uses different identities and anonymity as a way to critique the "celebrity" status afforded to some artists.
Cindy Islam is a counter(re)action of Britishness. Cindy Islam is the aftermath of thirty years of failing to comply with assimilative demands. Cindy Islam forges a Diasporic reality of ambivalence and rejection of homogeneous cultural values. Flux, intensity, trauma, attitude, over-communication and otherness, are all used as power vessels to challenge the dominant normative behaviours.
Cindy Islam gifts a parallel space for Britishness to evolve beyond its paralysing stagnancy.
Artist: Cindy Islam
Lighting Designer: Siobhan Lawson
Video Editor: Fi Nicholson
Sound artist: Urban feral
Camera Operator: Alexander Storey Gordon
With special thanks to my Iraqi parents who have struggled with coming to, and being in, this country.
A TRAMWAY PERFORMANCE NOW commission.
