Australian multi-disciplinary artist George Maple today announces the official release of MYTH to Vimeo On Demand. MYTH is a 24-minute hyperreal live performance film which premiered at the Sydney Opera House in December 2020 and was live streamed globally in May via Dice FM. The performance film, most recently received the award for Best Art Film at the Los Angeles New Media Film Festival.
Last week, Maple also released a new single ‘Demise’, a continuation of the MYTH saga. Maple says, “Demise signifies the moment just before a significant breakthrough, healing and change. The realisation that a negative cycle has to end. The song is written from the perspective of Luna, MYTH’s protagonist.”
George Maple will bring MYTH to life at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, next Friday, 18 June 2021 with recently announced supports from Tasmanian duo Sumner (whose recent single ‘Stranded’ received a full addition to triple j, as well as hitting the national Shazam chart and Spotify Viral Chart), Willo + Heaps Gay DJs.
MYTH is the tale of Luna and Sol, two star-crossed lovers born into a genetically engineered society; The New Monarchy. The overarching narrative follows an intimate love story between the two characters, Luna played by Maple and Sol by Australian supermodel, Jordan Barrett which soon becomes fractured and abandoned.
MYTH is an innovative world first for live performance, filmed in one long shot, in a 360 customised digital stage; the live performance traverses across multiple surreal worlds and digital environments. A mesmerizing intersection of dance, music, theatre and performance art. MYTH was written, directed, produced, production designed and art directed by Maple under her production company ‘The Process.’
Maple established The Process in 2019, and explains the ethos of the production company as a place for Modern Mythology, where Art is celebrated, music reigns supreme and the characters are beautifully complicated and flawed. She has big dreams for establishing the company in the world of mixed reality and film production in the coming years.
George Maple first shot to fame in 2016 writing, producing and singing for Australian artists such as Flight Facilities, Hayden James, DJ Snake and Flume, later releasing her first solo album Lover (2017) which debuted at #2 on the national iTunes charts. Maple’s catalogue of music has received over 500 million Spotify streams, 20.3 million YouTube views, and 350,000 Shazam follows making her one of the world’s most relevant artists of contemporary music culture.
