Commissioned by TANK Shanghai, Victoria Sin’s dream-like thought-provoking new performance Today’s Top Stories invites the audience into a universe where there is a dividing, but no beginning nor end. In the disguise of a news anchor covered by galaxy blue facial and body paint, and with a mesmerizing modulated voice, Victoria performs their emblematic poetic narration in the style of a televised news program, about life, existence, naming, identity and consciousness.

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About the artist

Victoria Sin, born in Toronto in 1991, currently lives and works in London.  Sin identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. They use speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body.

Sin has presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal; Hayward Gallery, London; Dortmunder Kunstverein; the Venice Biennale; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Serpentine Galleries, London; Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei; Taipei Contemporary Art Center; Brunel Museum, London; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and Tate Modern, London.