revolverWhat is new work in the era of social media 'templates,' endless cloud storage and meme-ory? REVOLVER reflects on authorship, archive and repertoire in the contemporary artist’s navigation of digital/live cultures in the creative process.
Lizzy Tan stitches together material captured in different contexts and years from her own archive spanning a decade, performed on-stage and through interactions with projections. Through the solo, Tan tracks the evolution of her creative process and revisits longtime collaborators.
REVOLVER presents the body as an avatar - interrogating the boundaries between past/present, archive/repertoire and citation/creation.
Revolver was commissioned for Resolution Festival 2024.
Resolution Festival / 31 Jan. 2024 / London, UK
Choreography & Performance: Lizzy Tan
Creative Direction Consultant: Carly Lave
Artistic Collaborator: Frieda Luk
‘Lizzy Tan ends the evening with her new work Revolver, a piece asking the “of-our-time” question…’
Dance Art Journal's ‘What to see at Resolution 2024 Festival at the Place’
'Revolver offers an intriguing perspective on the creative process and on archiving, and how these might be affected when we have the ability to record and capture everything if we choose...'
Rachel Elderkin, Resolution Review of 'Revolver' (2024)
'... the psyche of a decade’s worth of dance works layered and interconnected like an intricate web...'
Sara Silva, Resolution Review of 'Revolver' (2024)
FIMBO BUTURESFimbo Butures was a shared artistic practice (Maya Williams and Lizzy Tan) drawing from experiences in contemporary dance and erotic art. Fimbo Butures created experimental online and live work through two research and performance streams: 'For you: wicked' and Bimbo Futures.
'For you: wicked' merges media, sound design, dance and camming that deconstruct the dynamics of different performance spheres. 'For you: wicked' interrogates the sartorial makings of racialisation and gender and what it means to be ‘NSFW’ when work is unsafe for all under capitalism.
Bimbo Futures is an investigation of ‘the Bimbo’ online and IRL as an avatar of our times. Bimbo Futurism considers existence through labour, and all labour as absurd in end-stage capitalism.
Assembly Festival / 17-26 Aug. 2023 / Edinburgh, UK
Sound design: 皚桐
Photography & Videography: Billy Nisbett
Resolution Festival at The Place / 24 May 2023 / London, UK
Artist: Zas Ieluhee
Feat. Bot.dushka/Badushka
Vault Festival / 28 Feb.-2 Mar. 2023 / London, UK
Sound design: 皚桐
Videography: Tristan Alice Nieto
Photography: Billy Nisbett
Calm Down, Dear Festival / 30 May 2022 / London, UK
Sound design: 皚桐
Videography: Lu Guertler, Tristan Alice Nieto
riposte london at Electrowerkz / 8 Apr. 2022 / London, UK
Photography: @katiebishop_xcx, @999999999boyscrysendpics, @gabriela_zigova, @jeiiju, @siddiqui_media, @takenbymarshall
Intercultural Roots x Open House Hackney / 27 Mar. 2022 / London, UK
Photography: Julia Testas
‘…the right balance of absurdity and shock value creates a great formula for humour. Little Bimbo is the perfect example of this.’
Liam Woodvine, Resolution Review
‘…the kind of work that requires effort from the observer: research before, and probably more after - but the pay off is well worth it.’
Matthew Paluch, Resolution Review
‘…so clear in its intention and message that you have no other choice but to sit up and fully experience their stories.’
Francesca Matthys, Dance Art Journal
virtual geographiesVirtual Geographies (styled as V I R T U A L G E O G R A P H I E S) is a conceptual collaboration between Lizzy Tan and Carly Lave, two American artists based in London and Berlin. Each performance episode in the series connects two international cities through livestream choreography to create a simultaneous yet geographically distant event.
Virtual Geographies explores a conceptual framework of four different spaces: cyberspace, conceptual space, experiential space, and physical geography. Through choreography and digital and virtual technologies, these spaces are presented as zones of communication and interaction for a live audience.
‘An epic quality frames this project… A nod to the existence of a very specific “self” and its archiving in cyberspace.’
Steph Burrell,
Strand Magazine
Excerpt / 23 July 2020 / IG Live (Berlin, DE + Houston, TX)
Choreography & Creative Direction: Carly Lave, Lizzy Tan, Sophie Schutlze-Allen
Episode 1 / 14 Dec. 2019 (Berlin, DE + London, UK)
Altes Finanzamt + The Factory Dalston
Choreography & Creative Direction: Carly Lave, Lizzy Tan
Performance: Carly Lave, Lizzy Tan, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Julia Testas
HOME CORNERSHOME CORNERS is a collective memoir from Lizzy Tan, Tot Whittle and Jan Margolius. Set to a soundscape sampling sounds from their childhood homes in Texas and the UK, and excerpts read from journals kept over the years 2014-2020, HOME CORNERS is a reflection on change and re-encountering past selves.
The livestream installation is a response to the following: How does one hold on to identity in changing environments? How do we look at the familiar in new ways? In our shared experience of crisis and stillness, how do we want to begin again? The use of six cameras through two livestreams creates a sense of reflection, distance, and voyeurship in tandem with the deeply intimate content of the artists’ memories.
HOME CORNERS was commissioned by Performistanbul for the Stay Live at Home! project.
Stay Live at Home Performance No. 81 / Oct. 2020
Choreography & Performance: Lizzy Tan & Tot Whittle
Sound: Jan Margolius
RIPPLESRIPPLES is a project by Intercultural Roots responding to the various challenges presented by COVID-19. RIPPLES has commissioned 7 Initiating Artists (Abigail Sena Atzugah, Tau Peter Rockford Espiritu, Takumã Kuikuro, Olive Nieto, Savita Rani, Ahmed Soura and Lizzy Tan), each from different continental timezones, who lead individual and community responses on specific dates and times.
The RIPPLES World of global responses are hosted on Google Earth.
It all happens at once'It happens all at once' is a live screen solo reflecting on experiences of making art for livestream in the pandemic.
'It happens all at once' was commissioned by Dance Source Houston for Mind the Gap, held virtually in November 2020.
Dance Source Houston - Mind the Gap / 7 Nov. 2020
Choreography & Performance: Lizzy Tan
Sound: Jan Margolius