Our debut release remembers a double bill performance night at Perdu in Amsterdam where Ivan Cheng and Steven Warwick each presented a new work. This split EP arrives on the anniversary of the night.
Riffing off the fictional town of Stars Hollow from the popular early 2000s television series Gilmore Girls, for 'Suns Hollow' Ivan Cheng was joined on stage by artist Magdalena Mitterhofer. For his contribution to the EP, the performance in-ear track of a duologue between the characters Rory Gilmore (Mitterhofer) and Lane Kim (Cheng) is placed over his feedback cover of The La's 1990 hit 'There She Goes'; the first song heard in the pilot episode of Gilmore Girls. With a text heavy with cultural references, he goes further into the aspirations and dynamics of the two ‘best friends’ from different backgrounds.
About Ivan Cheng
Ivan Cheng (b. 1991, Sydney) produces video, objects, paintings and publications as anchors for the staging of complex and precarious spectacles. His background as a performer and musician form the basis for using performance as a critical medium. His work has recently been presented at gta exhibitions (Zurich), CNAC Magasin (Grenoble), Maxxi (Rome), Édouard Montassut (Paris). Confidences/Majority, the latest in a series of vampire books, was published by After 8 Books in 2022. He has initiated the project space
bologna.cc in Amsterdam since 2017.
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