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Form & Genre

Multimedia Theatre & Performance

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While it can describe theatre and performance that incorporates dance and music, multimedia performance more commonly specifies work that mixes live performance with machines and/or mediated forms.


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Site-specific performances reveal cities as places of wild nature, elemental movement, social space, and nature restructured with technology all creating a field of converging flows and energies comprising a lived experience.
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CoNCrEte
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CoNCrEte (2009)  screendance reveals how the environment affects our emotions and ever-changing lived experience. 
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GGP Ethno-Techno - Trimming Ones Identity - Asset Thumbail Image
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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This clip represents, in the artist’s own words, ‘a performative investigation in artificial identity, representation, doppelgangers, drag and the fluid borders of authorship and collaboration’.
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freedom (2008)
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Walking Gusto Productions explores the marginalised and disempowered female voices of South Africa by using the body as a “site of resistance”
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From Starting to Cut the Wood
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From Starting to Cut the Wood translates the sounds of manual labor into dance.
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The Shadow Drone Project
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Back to Back Theatre creates new forms of contemporary performance imagined from the minds and experiences of a unique ensemble of actors with disabilities, giving voice to social and political issues that speak to all people. Based in the regional centre of Geelong, the company is one of Australia’s most globally recognised and respected contemporary theatre companies. Seeking to make a body of work that exists in repertoire across time, the company tours extensively locally, nationally, and internationally.
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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In Between
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In between researches stillness and transition, focusing on the moments, during which nothing seems to happen, but without which, nothing can happen. 
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let’s take a walk – non zero one – Howard’s Journey
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let’s take a walk is an audio journey around the Barbican that starts with a question from a stranger hoping to take us out of our social bubble.
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let’s take a walk – non zero one – Rubaiyath’s Journey
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let’s take a walk is an audio journey around the Barbican that starts with a question from a stranger who might take us out of our social bubble.
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let’s take a walk – non zero one – Trailer
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let’s take a walk is an audio journey around the Barbican that starts with a question from a stranger who might take us out of our social bubble.
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mountaineering – non zero one - first person POV recording (No Sound)
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mountaineering explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.
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mountaineering – non zero one – trailer
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mountaineering explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.
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Pangaean Dreams
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Pangaean Dreams is a multimedia piece which leads the audience on a shamanic journey back 250 million years to the time when the earth’s continents were all fused into one.
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Payau # 2 Waterproof
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Documentation of the dance performance of Payau # 2 Waterproof, staged in the Indonesia Dance Festival 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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GGP Ethno-Techno - Censurado - Asset Thumbnail Image
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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GGP Ethno-Techno - Sing-along Geography Lesson - Asset Thumbnail Image
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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powder
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powder is a performance telling the story of the pain, and pleasure, of dressing, and undressing, the female body.
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GGP Ethno-Techno - El Designer Warrior - Asset Thumbail Image
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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GGP Ethno-Techno - El Hombre Cucaracha - Asset Thumbnail Image
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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small metal objects
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A public domain theatre show, part voyeuristic meditation, part urban thriller, it unfolds amidst the high volume pedestrian traffic of a public space. 
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Sun, Moon and Feather - The Film
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Sun, Moon and Feather presents a musical comedy-documentary about three Native American sisters growing up Native in an Italian neighbourhood in Brooklyn during the 1930s and 1940s.
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GGP Ethno-Techno - Chicano Virtual Reality - Asset Thumbnail Image
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This 1994 clip documents performance activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s work with his organisation, the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
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you'll see me [sailing in antarctica] — non zero one — Trailer
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A look at the science behind human perception through performance lectures, surround sound, hidden televisions, and sweeping panoramic views of the London skyline. 
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you’ll see me [sailing in antarctica] – non zero one – Full length Wide
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A look at the science behind human perception through performance lectures, surround sound, hidden televisions, and sweeping panoramic views of the London skyline. 
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
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‘Each recorded text reveals a paradigm shift and an emotional faultline in my biographical journey to the North and my scary journey to the heart of the US Art World. This is one such audio text.’
Commentary
by McPherson, Katrina
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by Calvert, Dave
Reflections on Ganesh versus the Third Reich by Dave Calvert discusses the work created by back to back.
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by Calvert, Dave
Reflections on small metal objects by back to back.
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by Nicolas Whybrow
Urban Sensographis examines the effects the evolution of the cities in the 21st century has on the practices and behaviours of urban dwellers. Key factors such as defensible, retail and consumer space, the lasting legacies of modernist design in the built environment, surveillance technologies, motorised traffic, and smart phone use, the integration of ‘wild’ as well as ‘domesticated’ nature in urban planning and living, as well as the impact of urban pollution on the earth’s climate.
Practitioner
A winner of OBIE, Rockefeller, Getty, NEA and CAA awards, among many others, Rachel Rosenthal was an internationally recognised pioneer in the fields of feminist and ecological performance art.


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