Re: [-empyre-] performance anyone?

[valerie <valerie@mobilegaze.com>]

Title: Re: [-empyre-] performance anyone?

Hi Helen - Thanks for the info.

Valerie

> 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 : )
>
> >
> >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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