SHEENA McGRANDLES
  • PROJECTS
    • DAWN : A Musical On Reproduction
    • DON'T MOTHER ME!
    • FLUSH (2020)
    • TONIGHT (2019)
    • MELANCHOLÍA (2019)
    • FREEDOM LANDSCAPES (2018)
    • FIGURED (2018)
    • JADED (2017)
    • BOUNTY (2016)
    • INTERVENTION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2016)
    • Dialogue : Renate Bertlemann (2015)
    • Man Power Mix (2015)
    • EXHIBITION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2015)
    • New Materialism (2015)
    • Man must eat (2015)
    • STEVE & SAM (2014)
    • True Balls (2013)
    • Eee Series (2011-2012)
    • Meatbook (2012)
    • walking & words (2010)
    • GROWING A MAN (2009)
  • NEWS
  • TEACHING
    • SENSATION WORKSHOP
    • WHO'S THE PARTY NOW?
  • CURATION
    • LAVA
    • MOVE
    • OBJECTS, ANIMALS & PERVERSIONS
    • RUG
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • DIS Magazine
    • ON SLOWNESS
    • INSTITUTIONALISED BODY
    • AS IF ITS JUST ABOUT TO HAPPEN
    • Feedback Lab 2
    • Feedback Lab 1
    • Writing : RIC ALLSOPP
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TONIGHT

Project by Melanie Jame Wolf 
www.savage-amusement.com/tonight

Tonight
 is one of the most frequently used words in pop music, and probably the most powerful. 
When this word is heard, or sung along to and out loud - a sense can open up that tonight, for real, something momentous might occur. 
It might take the shape of a romantic event or a total revolution. But either way, this extraordinary event will bring with it a radical transformation of your life 
as you have lived it up til now.
 
As a lyric, tonight functions as a powerful talisman or portal to an alternate time and place. As a performance, TONIGHT critically explores the potency of this popularly shared poetic of the tonight space. It looks at tonight as a complicated tension between being place of queer becoming – where we imagine and stage other possibilities of ourselves – and a vehicle of exploitation of desire via the pop machine. 

tonight is the sensual world. 
tonight is the promise of an imminent magic moment - the ancient Greek notion of Kairos. 
tonight is an uncontainable temporality, a sticky speculation of desire that spills over. 
It is an act of cultural edging that is both a sanctuary for rehearsing our ideal selves 
and a cruel fiction running on an engine of nostalgia for a space and time that is yet to be.
 
TONIGHT explores the pleasures and perils of the erotics, the poetics, and the politics 
of a shared pop imaginary of exquisite anticipation.
 
Forever's gonna start tonight...
Concept, Text, Video, Direction: Melanie Jame Wolf  
Performed by: Melanie Jame Wolf, Sheena McGrandles, Rodrigo Garcia Alves 

Sound Design: Mieko Suzuki 
Costume Design: Josa Marx 
Light Design: Ariel Efraim Ashbel 
Set Design: Jonas Maria Droste

Outside Eyes: Sharon Smith, Peaches Assistant: Evan Loxton 
Production: Joseph Wegmann / björn & björn
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  • PROJECTS
    • DAWN : A Musical On Reproduction
    • DON'T MOTHER ME!
    • FLUSH (2020)
    • TONIGHT (2019)
    • MELANCHOLÍA (2019)
    • FREEDOM LANDSCAPES (2018)
    • FIGURED (2018)
    • JADED (2017)
    • BOUNTY (2016)
    • INTERVENTION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2016)
    • Dialogue : Renate Bertlemann (2015)
    • Man Power Mix (2015)
    • EXHIBITION : WHO'S THE PARTY NOW, SISTER? (2015)
    • New Materialism (2015)
    • Man must eat (2015)
    • STEVE & SAM (2014)
    • True Balls (2013)
    • Eee Series (2011-2012)
    • Meatbook (2012)
    • walking & words (2010)
    • GROWING A MAN (2009)
  • NEWS
  • TEACHING
    • SENSATION WORKSHOP
    • WHO'S THE PARTY NOW?
  • CURATION
    • LAVA
    • MOVE
    • OBJECTS, ANIMALS & PERVERSIONS
    • RUG
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • DIS Magazine
    • ON SLOWNESS
    • INSTITUTIONALISED BODY
    • AS IF ITS JUST ABOUT TO HAPPEN
    • Feedback Lab 2
    • Feedback Lab 1
    • Writing : RIC ALLSOPP
  • ABOUT
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
  • CV