Walking at Night by Myself (2019) A Wake of Vultures | Nancy Tam

Two nameless women in matching striped dresses walk into the night as one. The steady rhythm of their footsteps gives way to the unnerving metronome of sine tones encircling the listener. White vertical lines scan across their striped dresses, revealing hidden colours and an eerie oil sheen. Sound and light continue to pull at the edges, leaving ghostly afterimages and confounding patterns. What begins as a simple nighttime walk threatens to dissolve into something far more sinister... 

Walking at Night by Myself is an unabashedly hypnotic and spooky audiovisual show—a study in form and rhythm evoking confusion and the uncanny. It’s a psychological horror where the plot unfolds through visual interference patterns occurring between the costumes and projection, in tandem with live-performed surround sound design and choreography, creating a performance that transcends from the spectacular to the phenomenological: from seeing to experiencing. This experiential work questions the surety of our senses, opens us up to the changing environs around us, and lulls us deeper into our own internal worlds.

Excerpts are from the show's presentation at IndieFest on Oct 29th, 2021.

This archival cut is mixed for listening on headphones.