{"id":43485,"date":"2021-06-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=43485"},"modified":"2021-06-20T15:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T19:56:37","slug":"premiere-new-chance-two-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/premiere-new-chance-two-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chance Blurs Lines Between Digital and Physical Realms with “Two Pictures” Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo Credit: Yuula Benivolski<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In this digital world, the lines of intimacy and consumption can cross over and over until they blur into a single continuum – especially in the last year or so of global isolation, when millions took to the internet as their only means of connection or meaning. Victoria Cheong of New Chance meditates on the nuanced intersection of physical versus digital, meaningfulness and the meaninglessness in her new video and song, \u201cTwo Pictures,\u201d premiering today on Audiofemme.<\/em>\u00a0The single will appear on New Chance\u2019s forthcoming record Real Time<\/a><\/em>, out July 16 via We Are Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Toronto-based artist explores her relationship to the outer world by removing herself from it completely. Her face painted in skull makeup, she narrates her observations as w post-Earth version of herself, recounting the way she used to move through the world and the things that stimulated her. She reflects on her connection to the digital realm and the way it shaped her everyday life. \u201cI woke each day to pass through the gate to relate to other people,\u201d Cheong sings over extraterrestrial synths and sparse drums, letting woozy saxophone (courtesy Karen Ng) take over the bridge. Viewing the internet as a gate to an endless web of connection is a perfect way to represent it\u2019s duality; the positivity of connection and closeness mixed with infinite opportunities to spar hate or sadness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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