Video excerpts from Prince Rama's Artist-in-Residence performance at ISSUE Project Room on February 20, 2011.
For the first performance, UTOPIA=NO PERSON, an initiation ceremony was conducted via “15 minute exorcise routines”. A play off the words “exercise” and “exorcise”, UTOPIA=NO PERSON focused on the body as a vehicle for utopian experimentation, encouraging willing participants to undergo a confrontation with personal demons and shedding of individual identity through the physical exhaustion of the body. Using the famous aerobics instructor Paul Eugene’s motto, “Let yourself go”, as an existential battle cry, THE NOW AGE transformed the concert space of ISSUE Project Room into a mystical gym.
Cinematography by Bradley Buehring and Blair Neal, editing by Matthew Walker
