Name: Daniel Barrow - Hall of Mirrors Performance
Start: 2025-02-21T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00
Location: MOCA London

MOCA London presents Daniel Barrow’s performance of Hall of Mirrors including Barrow’s manual animation and digital puppetry.
About this Event

Daniel Barrow - Hall of Mirrors Performance

**Performance starts at 7pm**

The performance sees Barrow’s manual animation and digital puppetry projected on the front of MOCA, accompanied by his live storytelling. Daniel Barrow is a Montreal-based artist working in sculpture, collage, installation and performance, though their practice centers itself primarily on the act of drawing. They are best known for using an overhead projector to present pictorial narratives in "manual animations" - merging the methods and cultural histories of cinema, comics, animation, and magic lantern shows.

In this window presentation, Barrow will showcase the breadth of work they produced as an "manual animator". Barrow often uses overhead projectors as well as an antiquated, late 1980s AMIGA animation software (Deluxe Paint) to translate the gestures of cinema to a kind of digital ‘magic lantern show’. The performance is free and can be seen projected on MOCA’s large outside windows. Booked seating is available.

Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad. They have performed at The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA festival, and the British Film Institute’s London Film Festival. Barrow is the winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award (Canada's largest art prize) as well as the recipient of the 2013 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Prize.