make-shift
Project showcase
Duration: 30 min.
Friday, 20 May 2011 | 16:30 > 16:30 2011-05-20T16:30:00.000Z | Room 1
make-shift is an “expanded media” performance happening simultaneously between two ordinary houses and a bespoke online performance space accessible to anyone, anywhere with a broadband connection. The performance takes two hours; in this 30 minute presentation we will discuss our motivations and inspirations for the work, the audience relationships, and the themes; we will also demonstrate some of the tools and include short extracts from the work.
In the performance, two performers (one in each house) work with household objects, recycling rubbish and cyberformance tools to broker interaction and discussion between local and remote audiences in a type of performative salon. Embodied gesture, videography, pre-prepared texts, online chat, digital imagery and avatar puppetry are combined in a unique live event that re-imagines the private actions of our domestic lives as multiple, interconnected and with global consequences.
more info: http://www.make-shift.net/
make-shift is devised and performed by Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula Crutchlow. Magdalena Project [http://www.creative-catalyst.com/" target="other">Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist from New Zealand. In 2008 she completed a Master of Arts (research) at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) investigating her practice of cyberformance - live performance on the internet - which she has been developing for over a decade. She is a founding member of the globally-dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision, and the project manager of UpStage, an open source web-based platform for cyberformance. Using UpStage, she has co-curated online festivals involving artists and audiences around the world. Helen is also the “web queen” of the Paula Crutchlow lives with her family in Exeter, Devon. She graduated in Dance from De Montfort University, and in 2000 completed an MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, UK where she is now an Associate Lecturer in Theatre. Paula has worked in Britain and internationally as a performer, director and tutor of movement and devised theatre. As a co-founder and Artistic Director of
In the performance, two performers (one in each house) work with household objects, recycling rubbish and cyberformance tools to broker interaction and discussion between local and remote audiences in a type of performative salon. Embodied gesture, videography, pre-prepared texts, online chat, digital imagery and avatar puppetry are combined in a unique live event that re-imagines the private actions of our domestic lives as multiple, interconnected and with global consequences.
more info: http://www.make-shift.net/
make-shift is devised and performed by Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula Crutchlow. Magdalena Project [http://www.creative-catalyst.com/" target="other">Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist from New Zealand. In 2008 she completed a Master of Arts (research) at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) investigating her practice of cyberformance - live performance on the internet - which she has been developing for over a decade. She is a founding member of the globally-dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision, and the project manager of UpStage, an open source web-based platform for cyberformance. Using UpStage, she has co-curated online festivals involving artists and audiences around the world. Helen is also the “web queen” of the Paula Crutchlow lives with her family in Exeter, Devon. She graduated in Dance from De Montfort University, and in 2000 completed an MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, UK where she is now an Associate Lecturer in Theatre. Paula has worked in Britain and internationally as a performer, director and tutor of movement and devised theatre. As a co-founder and Artistic Director of
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Paula Crutchlow lives with her family in Exeter, Devon. She graduated in Dance from De Montfort University, and in 2000 completed an MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, UK where she was an Associate Lecturer in Theatre until their relocation to Falmouth in 2010. Paula has worked in Britain and internationally as a performer, director and tutor of movement and devised theatre. As a co-founder and Artistic Director of Blind Ditch she has collaborated on context-specific collaborative...
Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula Crutchlow will give a presentation about the networked performance make-shift.
make-shift is a house party, a chat room, a slide show and a performance process - a live event for the 21st century that re-imagines the private actions of our domestic lives as multiple, interconnected and with global consequences. make-shift happens simultaneously between two ordinary houses and a bespoke online performance space accessible to anyone, anywhere with a broadband...