 You are warmly invited to the 11:11:11 UpStage
Festival - a diverse programme of 20-minute performances
presented entirely online in UpStage,
a web-based platform for cyberformance.
Prepare to be entertained, inspired, surprised and provoked!
The festival spans a 24-hour period during Friday 11 November and
into the 10th and 12th, depending on where you are in the world; time converters
are provided so that you can easily work out your local time.
All that's required for you to join the performances is a standard
browser and internet connection. There will be live links to the
stages from the UpStage web
site on the day of the festival.
Click here for the full schedule of
performances and time converters.
The 11 performances for 11:11:11 are:
- Cyberian
Chalk Circle: the political power of the internet
told through the story of Grusha and Simon from Brecht’s play The
Caucasian Chalk Circle, but set in Egypt of 2011. By
Christina Papagiannouli and Evi Stamatiou (London, UK).
- Edward
King: Times Square on Christmas Eve. Did Edward King
kill someone? Was the man his father? Do the Rockettes know the
secret? Tune in for the avatar can-can and join in the
Hallucinated Hallelujah Chorus, as Edward King asks: “Who am I?”
By Marlena Corcoran (Munich/Venice) with Marischka Klinkhamer
(Amsterdam), Vicki Smith (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and Ben Unterman
(Vancouver).
- Flat
Earth: a poetic journey on the source of ideas, and
how we build ideas from images that come in our mind; playing
with perception, the focus, the distraction of it, time, size
and distance, the imagination, and the memory of things and
scenes. By Petyr Veenstra and Floris Sirag (the Netherlands).
- Magfalda
meets the world in pieces: an innocent and
unpretentious journey to the (re)discovery of the world in
pieces that surrounds us. By Gabriella Sacco (Amsterdam,
Netherlands), Valentina Tibaldi (Torino, Italy).
- make-shift:
an audience with Dave: In conversation with make-shift‘s
regular middleman, Paula and Helen facilitate a structured
Q&A on what makes Dave tick. By Paula Crutchlow (UK) &
Helen Varley Jamieson (NZ/Germany).
- Property
& Theft: an Automated Confessional Service - a
cross between a Catholic confession and an automated telephone
payment service - this mechanical, comodified and malfunctioning
Confessional Service elicits absurd public confessions of
wrongdoing from participants, and then suggests appropriate
penance for the participant to enact there and then. By Olivia
Furber, Harry Giles, et al (Edinburgh, Scotland).
- Goldie
Kea and the 3 Sheep: a resourceful native bird meets
some introduced species in a clash of ecologies. No cultural
icon is safe! By students from South Westland Area School, Te
Tai Poutini, (Aotearoa/NZ).
- Humpty
with a twist: a risky situation, a broken dream, a
series of events that will have the characters scrambling for a
nutritious solution to an age old problem. By students from
Paparoa Range School, Te Tai Poutini, (Aotearoa/NZ).
- String
Games: using the ancient practice of Whai (String
Games) a navigational marker will be revealed. Audiences are
encouraged to bring a 2 metre length of cord knotted into a
single loop. By Vicki Smith and Hannah, Ellen and Joanne from
Paparoa Range School (Aotearoa/NZ).
- Where
are the clouds?: a dynamic, real-time exploration of
the performance of remixed texts in online digital media. By
Katarina DJ. Urosevic (Serbia), Francesco Buonaiuto (Italy) and
The Levi@hans.
- Is
This On?: sympathising with the computer, unexpected
love and jealousy between open source and proprietary software
form the perfect setting for a geek tragedy. By Inge Hoonte
& Birgit Bachler (the Netherlands) and students of the
Networked Media department at the Piet Zwart Institute in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Please pass this and join us at the 11:11:11 UpStage Festival!
Helen Varley Jamieson & Vicki Smith - UpStage Festival
Architects
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helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
[email protected]
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.avatarbodycollision.org
http://www.upstage.org.nz
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