Following performances at the Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (Bergen, Norway) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), Bahar Noorizadeh, Klara Kofen, FACT, and The Otolith Collective are delighted to present the UK premiere of the audiovisual performance Admiror, Or Revolutionary Sentiments at Invisible Wind Factory.
Admiror, Or Revolutionary Sentiments is a collaboration between artists Bahar Noorizadeh and Klara Kofen, with music and live sensory percussion by Cameron Graham and CGI design and animation from Rudá Babau. In Admiror, Or Revolutionary Sentiments, Noorizadeh and Kofen narrate the manual rhetoric of character and comportment that enact the emotions of sympathy and ethics of imagination proposed by Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759.
Admiror – the Latin verb for ‘to wonder, to marvel at, to admire’ – alludes to the Baroque gesture of palms raised in admiration or wonderment catalogued by the natural philosopher John Bulwer in Chirologia, or the Natural Language of the Hand in 1644. In its disorienting choreography of CGI baroque performance, timeless sonic worlds and dystopian oratory, Admiror, Or Revolutionary Sentiments discloses actions of the past that assign and frustrate the roles through which logics of liberalism and feelings of liberation conduct themselves in the future of our present.
Following the performance, please join us for a Q&A with Bahar Noorizadeh, Klara Kofen, Cameron Graham and Kodwo Eshun (The Otolith Collective).
This event takes place Invisible Wind Factory on Friday 21 February 2025 to mark the opening of Bahar Noorizadeh’s solo exhibition at FACT. Discover more about Bahar Noorizadeh’s exhibition Free to Choose →
The exhibition continues until Sunday 11 May 2025. Free entry.
