Recap of New Rituals: Aïsha Devi feat. Asian Dope Boys + Pan Daijing
By Ned Carter Miles
Photo documentation of *A
If a lesson could be extracted from “New Rituals”—a pair of music, dance and multimedia performances at London’s Barbican Centre that took place on October 7—it’s that grotesque is a relative term. The first, Aetherave (2018), involved live music from electronic artist Aïsha Devi, with choreography by members of the performance collective Asian Dope Boys (ADB), one of whom, the Chinese artist Tianzhuo Chen, also provided visuals.
