[-empyre-] performing in virtual

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi Fau,

This fascinates me, especially the ideas of the burden and the official 
version. As you know some of my performances with Sandy Baldwin have been 
attacked at least verbally (sometimes a bit moreso); Second Life is very 
unlike a mailing list, although at least one person threatened trying to 
ban me. And as Julian Dibbell pointed out in A Rape in Cyberspace - a 
seminal essay on online behaviour and its relation to real-world emotion - 
the pain that results is very real, it can be devastating. Jon writes 
about this as well.

The official version, at least for me - the resulting video - is always 
icealized; since we're dealing with pixels, we can go in during the 
shooting and editing and re/create anything we want. I think the videos 
encapsulate a lot of what might be seen as sloppy performance or even what 
might be considered mistakes - encapsulate and discard. The videos also 
imply strong beginnings and endings, whereas the performances and 
installations may continue for a much longer time. This is a little like 
Indian raga/rasa theory, with the drones 'appearing' in the world from 
eternity, continuing eveen when no long sounding in the performance space.

Can you talk a little more about the burden?

thanks!, Alan


On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Yael G wrote:

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> I don?t trouble myself with a divide. it?s a very  artificial way to look at 
> what we naturally do awkwardly -
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> communicate.
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> It?s all real and unreal on various degree to me.
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> Communication technology is just what it is - tech.
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> Performance happens in a shared space, the shared space of the performers. 
> the audience pretty soon becomes a burden.
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> You want the bandwidth to yourself, and the  preferred audience somewhere 
> else, watching you on a screen.
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> You can?t control the way your actions are witnessed even more so when you 
> speak of an environment which every visual aspect is modifiable
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> by other users.
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> You are left with edited videos that are  your official version.
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> Fau 
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