Celestial Throne

Performance artist Rah Eleh will introduce her new work 'Celestial Throne' on show at Palazzo Mora as part of Personal Structures.

Artist Rah Eleh will introduce her new work 'Celestial Throne' which made its world debut at Palazzo Mora as part of Personal Structures. 'Celestial Throne' parodies the tropes endemic to a classic game show, specifically Jeopardy!, where clues are provided and contestants guess the answers. The clues in the game show expose coded internet dialect, iconography, memes, and aesthetics used by far right hate groups to disseminate the movement’s political ideologies, spread messages of animosity and to lure recruits.The work features a series of characters all performed by the artists. The characterisations deconstruct racial stereotypes, while the videos are a pointed critique of far-right internet extremism.

Rah Eleh is a video, net and performance artist and a PhD candidate at Die Angewandte in Vienna. Rah’s work has been exhibited extensively internationally at spaces including: ECC Biennial Art Exhibition Personal Structures (Palazzo Mora), Images Festival (Toronto), Museum London, Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, Massachusetts), Miami Art Basel, Nieuwe Vide (Haarlem, Netherlands), and the Onassis Cultural Center (Athens, Greece). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including: Chalmers Arts Fellowship, SSHRC Canada Graduate and Doctoral scholarships, and several national grants. She has been awarded many residencies including the Koumaria Residency (Greece, 2016), Studio Das Weisse Haus (Vienna, 2014) and the ArtSlant Georgia Fee Residency (Paris).

Celestial Throne

Performance artist Rah Eleh will introduce her new work 'Celestial Throne' on show at Palazzo Mora as part of Personal Structures.

28.07.2022
16.00 — 17.00

  • Event: Presentation
  • Venue: Palazzo Mora
  • Presence: In-person
  • Links: @elehrah

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