[-empyre-] Participatory Art: Digital Traces

[Deborah Kelly]

dear Empyre list, 
I posted here a few weeks ago to see if anyone was interested to participate in a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. It used youtube and word of mouth connection to build a memorial made of dancing people in cities around the world.

In case you didn't see, here's the introduction to the memorial project in English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMBTuFbLQH4&feature=channel_page

and here are the instructions for the simple dance steps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MziREAZ_WqA&feature=channel_page
(also online in Mandarin, Cantonese and German)

On 4 June 2009, people made the Tiananmen memorial using the Tank Man Tango in 20 cities (that I know of). Here are some traces:

This London online-TV one has beautiful footage of some of the 70 people who made the memorial in Sydney (& poor interview with me):

http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=3020413

Here it is in Singapore, at the Substation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raisondetre/sets/72157619666974881/

Here is a group doing it on the news in Tucson, Arizona
(click on the video icon):
http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=10482853

These people in Brussels are part of Amnesty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGQJnBgC1k

But these completely unrelated other people in Brussels are not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3hNopi9IU

Some people making the dancing vigil in Bristol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i569iMX7cBc

In Weimar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C0_b9QRVp4

And Erfurt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4OqBrzcCyg

In Leipzig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUuFwOX1FAc

A town I have not heard of, Beilefeld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPS5dtyz2Yc

On stage in Philadelphia:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/48139587.html

and then there are these people in Athens making a... rockstar version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4At4RlvjJ0

And finally, streaming from Auckland, Hobart, Brisbane, Singapore, Belgrade, Dunkerque, Brussels, and Richmond, Virginia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2CXW2Z0WYo

with best wishes
from Deborah