Laptop Performance Laboratory: Modular Play
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Working with trained cross-disciplinary performers, this project will explore community and isolation, the yearning for connection in a decentered posthuman world.
LPL/MP makes use of and expands upon dialogic devising and the internet-based approach from Global Corporeality and Laptop Performance Laboratory. Each of the collaborators from Canada, Latvia, Australia, Idaho, Florida, and Georgia will possess a module of performance that they may perform separately or in conjunction with one or more of their collaborators in real or virtual space. Different variations of the work may be performed as collaborators are able to travel to different performance sites. This expands upon previous exploration of internet-based collaborative performance that culminated in simultaneous multi-sited performance to produce multi-modal, multi-sited performance unrestrained by time. Thus the performance structure will echo the creative process and provide much more opportunity to disseminate the research through performance in various sites and configurations.
LPL/MP makes use of and expands upon dialogic devising and the internet-based approach from Global Corporeality and Laptop Performance Laboratory. Each of the collaborators from Canada, Latvia, Australia, Idaho, Florida, and Georgia will possess a module of performance that they may perform separately or in conjunction with one or more of their collaborators in real or virtual space. Different variations of the work may be performed as collaborators are able to travel to different performance sites. This expands upon previous exploration of internet-based collaborative performance that culminated in simultaneous multi-sited performance to produce multi-modal, multi-sited performance unrestrained by time. Thus the performance structure will echo the creative process and provide much more opportunity to disseminate the research through performance in various sites and configurations.
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Description of Proposed Activities
Laptop Performance Laboratory: Modular Play is an ongoing intermedial project of Callous Physical Theatre that explores community, isolation, and the yearning for connection in a decentered posthuman world. Our intent is to develop artistic materials that may be structured into transdisciplinary exhibition/performance modules that are low-cost and highly adaptable; agile artist interventions to be shared with community across the world in multiple configurations.
Throughout 2017 collaborators in Latvia, British Columbia, Australia, Idaho, Georgia and Florida meet digitally through bandwidth, hardware and software to devise the theme, text, movement, music, sound and visual elements of the work. Through this process, core content emerged: Community, Connection, Decentered, Isolation, Mapping, Posthuman, and Yearning. From these words we collaboratively devised texts, movement and music. All sessions are live streamed and recorded for ongoing examination and dissemination on the web.
With the support of Florida State University, the eight initial collaborators will be in residence together in real time and space December 18, 2017-January 6, 2018 to structure the source material created over the past year. Discrete performance modules will be aleatorically devised by precise (and sometimes not so precise) algorithmic play; each performance module will vary according to structures imposed while adhering to the ‘rules of the game’ which will allow for a multitude of interpretations. At the conclusion of the residency, a work in progress showing will be publicly presented followed by an audience feedback session. This will provide necessary focus group feedback critical to our process.
Current plans to disseminate the work as performance/installations center around the locations that our initial collaborators reside. Our first iteration will be at the Classic City Fringe Festival (CCFF) in Athens, GA in October 2017. Ongoing iterations of the project will incorporate members of local community whenever possible. For example, our Australian collaborator is working with a group of performers to perform a version of LPL in her local Heyfield community which we hope to live-stream as part of our performance during the CCFF in October. As a living, shared, creative project, LPL:MP will continue to be performed and expanded through non-traditional sites/venues/opportunities and changing subsets of collaborators for several years.
Concurrently, we are sharing the process, content, methodology, and discoveries made through conference, seminars, lecture demonstrations, and the authorship of articles to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals.
Laptop Performance Laboratory: Modular Play is an ongoing intermedial project of Callous Physical Theatre that explores community, isolation, and the yearning for connection in a decentered posthuman world. Our intent is to develop artistic materials that may be structured into transdisciplinary exhibition/performance modules that are low-cost and highly adaptable; agile artist interventions to be shared with community across the world in multiple configurations.
Throughout 2017 collaborators in Latvia, British Columbia, Australia, Idaho, Georgia and Florida meet digitally through bandwidth, hardware and software to devise the theme, text, movement, music, sound and visual elements of the work. Through this process, core content emerged: Community, Connection, Decentered, Isolation, Mapping, Posthuman, and Yearning. From these words we collaboratively devised texts, movement and music. All sessions are live streamed and recorded for ongoing examination and dissemination on the web.
With the support of Florida State University, the eight initial collaborators will be in residence together in real time and space December 18, 2017-January 6, 2018 to structure the source material created over the past year. Discrete performance modules will be aleatorically devised by precise (and sometimes not so precise) algorithmic play; each performance module will vary according to structures imposed while adhering to the ‘rules of the game’ which will allow for a multitude of interpretations. At the conclusion of the residency, a work in progress showing will be publicly presented followed by an audience feedback session. This will provide necessary focus group feedback critical to our process.
Current plans to disseminate the work as performance/installations center around the locations that our initial collaborators reside. Our first iteration will be at the Classic City Fringe Festival (CCFF) in Athens, GA in October 2017. Ongoing iterations of the project will incorporate members of local community whenever possible. For example, our Australian collaborator is working with a group of performers to perform a version of LPL in her local Heyfield community which we hope to live-stream as part of our performance during the CCFF in October. As a living, shared, creative project, LPL:MP will continue to be performed and expanded through non-traditional sites/venues/opportunities and changing subsets of collaborators for several years.
Concurrently, we are sharing the process, content, methodology, and discoveries made through conference, seminars, lecture demonstrations, and the authorship of articles to be submitted to peer-reviewed journals.
