Tati au Miel, swarm, 2025. Performed within Dan Guthrie’s Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 7 August 2025. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff.
On the 7th of August 2025, Chisenhale Gallery presented swarm, a newly commissioned performance by the Canadian multimedia artist and musician Tati au Miel. Blending abstraction, storytelling, and ritual, this new live work was developed in response to Dan Guthrie’s exhibition Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure.
Miel drew from eerie melodies, textured noise, and deep resonance. Engaging with hauntologies and archival murmurings, the work weaves together flute harmonics, tape loops, and electromagnetic frequencies. Through explorations of wind, invisibility, interference, and time, the performance seeks to become an embodied meditation on monumentality and the limits of visual representation.
You can listen back to the score to swarm on this page.
Tania Daniel, also known as Tati au Miel, is a Montreal-born and raised interdisciplinary artist of Haitian heritage. Their practice is grounded in experimentation, which informs every step of their creative process. Driven by abstraction, spirituality, and texture, they evoke sensory-led experiences of these themes, interpreted through sound, installation, performance, extended reality, and visual arts. In recent years, they have presented a solo exhibition, Reverie, 2024, at World Creation in Montreal, composed the core score for Bhenji Ra’s debut feature film Biraddali: Dancing on the Horizon, and have recently begun their graduate studies in Music/Sound at Bard MFA.