Klonaris/Thomadaki
Night Show for Angel
THE ANGEL CYCLE

Site specific multimedia installation 
3000 m2 space, three floors of Hornsey Road Baths, London 
Edge Biennial 1992, with the support of the Arts Council of England 
THE BATHS THE LABYRINTH

Imagine a derelict space which sometime ago had functioned as a public baths building. A contemporary water sanctuary empty and vast. A deserted space, its utility function forgotten, slides into mystery. This will be a space Beyond the Dream Wall. 
You are invited to penetrate the Labyrinth. The artists have printed dreams on it. You are invited to penetrate those dreams. 
A Hermaphrodite. Collapse of gender. An Angel. S/he inhabits this space now. Maybe this space is a ruined temple. Or just a photograph of a dream behind the Angel’s closed eyelids. Or maybe it is a book. A book on the vegetation of inner memory. Some kind of re-imagined Genesis or a reversed legacy of an ending millennium. 
Anyhow all this is happening far away. In a Night Show for Angel. Beyond the Dream Wall. 
 
M. K. - K. T., 1992 

 
THE PARTS
  • Ground floor 
    • Blindfolded (The Entrance)  
    • Remember (The Booth)  
    • The Angel Ablaze (The Pool)
     
  • Basement
    • The Chamber of Transmutations (The Changing Rooms) 
     
  • Upper Floor
    • And Then She Saw (The Staircase)
    • The Wings (First Room)  
    • The Chamber of Love (Second Room)  


THE MEDIA 

  • Photography    
    • 7 large scale B&W prints 100 X 150 cm on aluminium  
    • slides (paint box processed, computer multimedia projection)  
    • 50 laser B&W prints 30 X 42 cm  
  • Sound     
    • five sound installations, quadriphony, mix of voice, text, music  
  • Video     
    • three video installations (vertical columns of three monitors)  
  • Lights     
    • neon tubes - blue and yellow  
    • black light tubes  
    • theater coloured spots  
    • blue electric bulbs  
    • jack lights  
    • strobe lights 
  • Screens     
    • three screens of 5 m X 4 m (the pool)  
    • triangular floor screen 4 m X 3 m (upper floor)  
    • wall screens  
  • Mannequins    
    • a young boy and an adolescent androgyne  
  • Embalmed animals   
    • a tiger, two leopards  
    • a peacock, three owls  
    • an iguana  
  • Objects     
    • mirrors, wings, armour, wedding dresses, glass bowls, test tubes, roses, candles, colour pigments  
  • Elements     
    • earth, water, fire
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