Re: [NetBehaviour] The Participatory Act of Giving up Control
Hi Johannes,
Thanks for your note and compelling argument. It sounds like this would make an
excellent discussion at the Symposium given we have two Blast Theory and
contemporary performance experts participating, Maria Chatzichristodoulou and
Steve Dixon, as well as Matt Adams himself. I look forward to your
participation!
All the Best,
Randall
Art of the Networked Practice Online Symposium 2018
Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution
March 29-31, 2018
https://thirdspacenetwork.com/symposium2018/
On 1/30/18, 2:34 AM, "NetBehaviour on behalf of Johannes Birringer"
<netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org on behalf of
johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Randall
thanks for sharing this, and also alluding to the Networked Practice Online
Symposium that you all have planned, it seems like a very interesting event.
Now the report you published, which seems to comment on critics's responses
to the "Kidnap" piece, does not at all jive with discussions I recently
took part in, and I personally admit to feeling appalled at some of the
more manipulative immersion theatre practices that are currently en vogue
or seem to have sprung up, in the experience economy and from providers of
immersive fun or humiliation reality-TV (locking audience up, coralling and
coercing them,
faking existential crises, provoking traumatic experiences), testing
whatever limits they are testing now in live art;
being kidnapped, i would have thought, desiring to surrender and give up
control (?), is not an aesthetic trial run or "existentialist" prototype you
can sell as "political performance"?
or can you?
respectfully
Johannes Birringer
dap-lab
From: NetBehaviour [netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org] on behalf
of Randall Packer [rpac...@zakros.com]
Sent: 29 January 2018 02:46
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
Subject: [NetBehaviour] The Participatory Act of Giving up Control
Here I discuss Matt Adams & Blast Theory's controversial performance work
Kidnap, in which spectators paid £10 to enter a lottery in the hope of being
kidnapped: a classic exposé on the participatory act of giving up control. Matt
is a keynote for the upcoming Art of the Networked Practice Online Symposium.
This blog feature was based on essays by Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Steve
Dixon, both participating in the Symposium.
The Participatory Act of Giving up Control
https://thirdspacenetwork.com/symposium2018/participatory-act-giving-up-control/
Best,
Randall
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Participatory Act of Giving up Control
Hi Randall thanks for sharing this, and also alluding to the Networked Practice Online Symposium that you all have planned, it seems like a very interesting event. Now the report you published, which seems to comment on critics's responses to the "Kidnap" piece, does not at all jive with discussions I recently took part in, and I personally admit to feeling appalled at some of the more manipulative immersion theatre practices that are currently en vogue or seem to have sprung up, in the experience economy and from providers of immersive fun or humiliation reality-TV (locking audience up, coralling and coercing them, faking existential crises, provoking traumatic experiences), testing whatever limits they are testing now in live art; being kidnapped, i would have thought, desiring to surrender and give up control (?), is not an aesthetic trial run or "existentialist" prototype you can sell as "political performance"? or can you? respectfully Johannes Birringer dap-lab From: NetBehaviour [netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org] on behalf of Randall Packer [rpac...@zakros.com] Sent: 29 January 2018 02:46 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Subject: [NetBehaviour] The Participatory Act of Giving up Control Here I discuss Matt Adams & Blast Theory's controversial performance work Kidnap, in which spectators paid £10 to enter a lottery in the hope of being kidnapped: a classic exposé on the participatory act of giving up control. Matt is a keynote for the upcoming Art of the Networked Practice Online Symposium. This blog feature was based on essays by Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Steve Dixon, both participating in the Symposium. The Participatory Act of Giving up Control https://thirdspacenetwork.com/symposium2018/participatory-act-giving-up-control/ Best, Randall ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] The Participatory Act of Giving up Control
Here I discuss Matt Adams & Blast Theory's controversial performance work Kidnap, in which spectators paid £10 to enter a lottery in the hope of being kidnapped: a classic exposé on the participatory act of giving up control. Matt is a keynote for the upcoming Art of the Networked Practice Online Symposium. This blog feature was based on essays by Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Steve Dixon, both participating in the Symposium. The Participatory Act of Giving up Control https://thirdspacenetwork.com/symposium2018/participatory-act-giving-up-control/ Best, Randall ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
