Silver Park is a crepuscular ceremony staged in the confines of the candle-lit gallery, its illuminated surfaces setting a transcendent scene for the dark leisure of two performances, played out within its lambent tableau.
The ritual vision is both comforting and confrontational, reflecting upon the twin nature of the show’s eponymous realm as a both a locus of consolidated leisure and familial airing, and a site of mythical peril. Orjis’ idyll is camp, reflective, paradisiacal, infernal, un/finished, operatic and survivalist.
Richard Orjis is an artist based in Auckland. Death Throes is a D-beat band based in Christchurch. LA Lakers is a vocal/tape artist also based in Christchurch.
