agreed! On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:28 AM, ruth catlow <[email protected]>wrote:
> Not to be missed! > : ) > Ruth > > On 19/08/2011 00:50, helen varley jamieson wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > We are performing 'make-shift' again and we would love you to join us for > the online event at 10am (UK time), Saturday 20th August. > > 'make-shift' is programmed as part of Magdalena - Legacy and > Challenge<http://www.chapter.org/23438.html>Festival at Chapter, Cardiff, UK > so both Helen and Paula will be in houses > in Cardiff (only streets away from each other... actually we could probably > shout to each other instead...) > > To access the performance go to www.make-shift.net and follow the LIVE > LINK in the top right hand corner of the home page. Please get there a few > minutes early to make sure that everything loads ok. > > There is more information about the work below and we look forward to you > joining us on Saturday. > > Best wishes > Paula and Helen > > * > “When I was growing up and something important got sucked up the hoover, my > mum could be persuaded to get a piece of newspaper, unfold it on the floor > and empty the cloth bag to try and find the missing thing. I don’t do that. > Barbie shoes, fuzzy felt animals, bits of lego that are really important > parts of a helicopter, multi-coloured beads from broken bracelets. I don't > care. Up into the hoover it goes and away with it. To somewhere else. > Outside my home. To where I can't see it anymore.”* > > make-shift is a unique and intimate networked performance that speaks > about the fragile connectivity of human and ecological relationships. > Devised by Paula Crutchlow (Devon based performer and director) and Helen > Varley Jamieson (NZ writer and cyberformer) the performance takes place > simultaneously in two separate houses that are connected through a specially > designed online interface. Paula and Helen (one in each house) stage their > part of the work with the help of a group of around 15 local audience > members. Scripted and visually poetic performance is interspersed with > webcam videography, avatar puppetry and audience interaction in the format > of a performative salon. Everything that happens in the houses is streamed > to online audiences who can also contribute text chat visible on the > interface to everyone throughout the event. > > make-shift is an ecologically aware house party with a difference. As well > as experiencing the intimacy, viscerality and shared experience of a live > performance event; local and online audiences participate in a > call-and-response between people, landscape and culture to discuss the theme > of 'disposability' in its broadest sense. > > On 18th September at ISEA in Istanbul, we will giving a presentation on > make-shift as part of the Furtherfield panel – "Media Art Ecologies – is > digital culture a contributor to climate change?" > > *“Helen and Paula arranged the magical elements of telematic performance > for the make-shift event at HTTP Gallery in a montage of stuff, poetry, > sound, images, dialogue, polemic and actions. It was utterly engrossing and > left us all with a thrilling sense of the unexplored potential of theatre > and performance in the networked age." *Ruth Catlow, HTTP Gallery. > > -- > BLIND DITCH performance. installation. intervention. participation > e: [email protected] t: +44 (0) 7881 862714 > w: www.blindditch.org www.vanland.org > > > Blind Ditch is a Company Limited by Guarantee > Registered in England No 06701599 > Registered Office - 2 Barnfield Crescent, Exeter, EX11QT > > > This email and associated attachments are sent in confidence for the > addressee(s) only. Unauthorised use, dissemination, distribution, publication > or copying of this communication without permission is strictly prohibited. > If you receive this communication in error, please notify us immediately and > delete any copies. Blind Ditch cannot accept responsibility for any loss or > damage arising from any use of this e-mail or attachments. Any views > expressed may not necessarily be the views of the company. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > [email protected]http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *Training for a Better World *28 / 10 2011 - 1 /1 2012 <http://crac.languedocroussillon.fr/artiste_fiche/254/3172-artistes.htm> http://crac.languedocroussillon.fr/exposition_fiche/121/3170-a-venir.htm
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