Re: [-empyre-] performance anyone?

[helen varley jamieson <helen@creative-catalyst.com>]

there isn't a lot of performance being done online. & as a theatre practitioner, i have found a certain amount of resistance to the idea of performance on the internet amongst my theatre colleagues. when i gave a cyberformance presentation at the odin teatret in january last year, it inspired defensive cries of "you can't call that theatre! there's no Body & no Emotion!" ... from this experience i developed the[abc]experiment, http://www.abcexperiment.org & now i'm performing with Avatar Body Collision, http://www.avatarbodycollision.org.

my original entry into online performance was through adriene jenik & lisa brenneis of desktop theater, http://www.desktoptheater.org. there are various others doing performance related things, i think there are quite a few people in australia (haven't got any urls off the top of my head) & people doing dance-related stuff.

h : )

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>I am curious as to what kinds of online performances are bring done 
>presently. This is the other half of my persona - performance. I have

>a Website which I've been playing around w/ online personae called 
>The Advice Bunny (http:/www.mobilegaze.com/advicebunny) An scoop on 
>how performance is being presented online? Is anyone involved in 
>this? I am not seeing much performance on the Web although 
>performance seems to be exploding (at least in Canada) as THE artform

>of the early 21st century. Which seems curious - because performance 
>can be so essentialist. I'd appreciate any thoughts on the subject, 
>if I can make this short detour in the conversation.
>
>Valerie
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