The Substation/​ Melanie Jame Wolf/​ Chorus/

A darkly humorous look at the social function of gossip.

Performance maker and visual artist Melanie Jame Wolf explores the power of rumour in this darkly humorous and immersive video installation. Wolf inhabits a series of richly compelling personas throughout Chorus, to evoke the ancient Greek Mythological space and speak to the way current politics is played out.

From a shapeshifting chorus of camp figures, Wolf critically engages with the pleasures and dangers of vanity, ambition, greed, morality, chaos and mischief. Through surreal visuals and magnetic soundscape, Chorus offers visitors an opportunity to reckon with the power associated with voice, both individual and in unison – our own and others – as we observe, interpret and report on human behaviour.