A brief interlude from music festival posts to mention a performance that happened at Wysing last weekend by Shana Moulton. I really enjoyed it at the time and have been thinking about it a lot since. It was basically her performing in relation to computer generated imagery, pre-recorded scenes including footage shot in Wysing's famous 'Tree Keep' the previous day, alongside found footage including extracts from the most extraordinary TED talk by the stroke specialist Jill Bolte Taylor. There's a lot of very good work out there in which artists are using CGI and green screen technology, but I really haven't seen anyone interact with technology in this way before; questioning how that very technology manipulates our expectations of ourselves, both physically and emotionally, and offering a surprisingly spritual, albeit wryly so, persepective on being human. If you haven't seen her work before, here's the trailer for her ongoing 'Whispering Pines' performance in which she is collaborating with the composer Nick Hallett. 

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