- AND ‘Slowglass’ with Pam Virada, Shimmer x Amarte commission
Shimmer’s new program, Ageless, Ageless, is centred on these signals: shared cultural forms such as the lullaby’s pulse, call-and-response, the ritual of the threshold, or the cadence of mourning. Travelling across geographies, languages, politics, and belief, these hazy forms ‘flash’ up to the surface, letting us observe what repeats and what changes. By holding these patterns momentarily in view, slowly and together—with you, our audience—we intend to make a space where differences can meet without hardening. ‘Ageless, Ageless’ is a repeated lyric from Mojo Pin (1994) by Jeff Buckley (1966–1997), an artist who was inspired by devotional music, and in particular by the work of the Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948–1997), like Khan and Buckley, this program connects with repetition, where meaning melts away to connect us back to the deep. For us, agelessness is distinct from timelessness: it folds the past into the present in order to imagine the future anew.
Ageless, Ageless proposes artworks, exhibitions, writings, and collective studies that treat memory and presence as forms of continuity: not to rhyme with or repeat the past, but to remain continually informed by it.
