Wednesday 8th May, 7 – 9pm: Victor Chakravarty's The Man Without Qualities
Between the 1st-15th of May 2024, Shoreditch Arts Club will be screening Paris-based artist Victor Chakravarty’s piece The Man Without Qualities on our multi-screen projectors. The piece has been specially commissioned for Shoreditch Arts Club, and this will be the first time the piece will be screened in its original format.
Join us on the 8th of May, when Chakravarty will be reenacting a performance from the film, bringing The Man Without Qualities to life.
The Man Without Qualities borrows its title from the novel of the same name by Austrian writer Robert Musil. Through dance, performance, allegories and metaphors, Chakravarty’s piece proposes new languages of human experience.
The film is structured as a triptych, meaning the image is split in three. Narrated as voice-over, the film’s premise is as follows: Nature, as an object of humans, has changed drastically due to climate change. Everything “natural” has been affected by human impact on the environment, and humans are now left in a world of culture(s). The original meaning of “nature” as a concept has thereby gone lost. All objects in the world are shaped by human intention, with utility as the primary aim. There is no longer any escape from the human influence and impact on nature.
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