Tai Shani, M.I.A.S.M.A. The 12 Choruses for Antigone
Saturday 19 Sep 2026 from 7pm to 8:15pm
Sunday 20 Sep 2026 from 7pm to 8:15pm
8€ (reduced) / 15€
The listening session is in English, with French subtitles.
This listening session features a new sound piece by artist Tai Shani. A chorus of twelve singers brings to life a text penned by Shani, scored by Aga Ujma.
Shani revisits the story of Antigone, a figure of rebellion guided by a deep moral conviction and by her love for her brother Polynices, who has been denied a proper burial.
The myth of Antigone is here reinterpreted through a necropolitical lens, revealing the violence and current systems of power that determine which lives may be protected and which are bound to die. In the face of environmental disasters, genocides, and the inequalities produced by global capitalism, Antigone’s revolutionary spirit carries a message of resistance and radical love. In M.I.A.S.M.A. The 12 Choruses for Antigone, Shani transforms this narrative into a collective meditation on violence, mourning, and solidarity, driven by the desire to act otherwise.
Credits
The 12 Choruses
For “the heavenly Antigone, the most magnificent figure ever to have appeared on earth”
Artistic Director, Writer : Tai Shani
Composer, Arrangements, Producer: Aga Ujma
Additional Production: Maxwell Sterling
Sound Engineering: Joseph Futak
Featuring Lucinda Chua (cello + cello arrangements)
CHOIR : Alice Beverley, MaÃva Berthelot Ioannidis, Fran Lobo, George Lynch, Lan McArdle, Molly Moody, ELLC (Cas Olowoyo), Aria SL, Aga Ujma, Alice Winter, Keiko Yamamoto, Eleni Zachariou
Editor (text): Laura McLean-Ferris
Bass Clarinet: Alex McKenzie
Gamelan, Synths: Aga Ujma
Recorded at Super Symmetry Studios, 2026
With a poetic, exuberant visual language, she develops feminist counter-mythologies that subvert patriarchal narrative structures. A central work is her long-term project Dark Continent (DC: Productions), inspired by Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she designs an allegorical “city of women.”
Her works have been shown internationally, including at The Cosmic House, Turner Contemporary, Tate, Serpentine Galleries, UK, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria, and Tensta Konsthall, Sweden. In 2019, she was awarded the Turner Prize alongside three other artists. In 2023, Shani was the subject of solo exhibitions at KM21, The Hague, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Significant projects such as DC: Semiramis were presented at the Glasgow International Festival and The Tetley in Leeds. In 2025, she presented two highly acclaimed exhibitions, The Sun Is a Flame That Haunts The Night at the High Line in New York and The Spell or The Dream, a large-scale audiovisual installation at Somerset House in London.