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Performance Art / Live Art & Performance
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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Battle of the Pyramids was a robotic performance installation featuring reconfigured Elmo toys performing military manoeuvres in rigid choreographed formations. This seminal artwork explored and used sensor and wireless communication to create clusters of entities moving in exact synchronisation in response to a call to arms. The robot's movements emulated the rigid and postured fighting strategies of Napoleonic warfare. These strategies, employed in Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, were particularly idiosyncratic in Egypt where they were persistently performed without consideration of either the desert environment or the fighting strategies of the enemy. The work is a testimony to the tragic consequences of imperialism and the dangers, follies and sadness of a rationale for blind obedience that makes victims out of warriors. The piece was exhibited at Light Industries in Theater of Code curated by Christiane Paul in 2008. It was funded by the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and Professional Staff Congress CUNY Research Grant.
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Camouflage Town is a pioneering telerobotic artwork. Camouflage Town is a decoy town constructed for the practice of military manoeuvres, war, and other scenarios of high drama. The robot, named "Kiru" , lived in the first-floor lobby and gallery of the Whitney Museum. As a telerobot, Kiru allowed remote visitors to communicate with physical visitors in the space. Remote visitors controlled the robot’s locomotion, pan, tilt and zoom of its camera over the web and spoke to museum visitors via text to speech and heard their responses. When autonomous, the robot relayed its history as the Librarian of Juxtapositions in Camouflage Town. This piece was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in DATA DYNAMICS curated by Christiane Paul in 2001. It was funded by the National Science Foundation Award, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Robotics and Theater, Robotic Renaissance Project and NSF Gateway Engineering Education Coalition at Cooper Union.
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CoNCrEte (2009)
screendance reveals
how the environment affects our emotions and ever-changing lived
experience.
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Decomposing Decay documents a collaborative artistic research project exploring the sonic and spatial relationships between bodies and a decomposing building with unique acoustics, investigating transformation and non-hierarchical creation methods as part of Behrens and Elle's ongoing "You and Me" series.
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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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A three-part drone light performance, Moombaki premiered in Western Australia at the Fremantle Biennale in 2021.
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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 translates the sounds of manual labor into
dance.
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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 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 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 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 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 explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.
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mountaineering explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.
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NoMad is an Island is an interactive robotic installation from the 1997 Ars Electronica Festival.
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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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Documentation of the dance performance
of Payau # 2 Waterproof, staged in the Indonesia
Dance Festival 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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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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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 is a performance telling the story of
the pain, and pleasure, of dressing, and
undressing, the female body.
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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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Salt is an interactive installation which uses visual and audio media to take the user to the mythological realm of Drexciya.
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Sayonara Diorama is an electronic multimedia performance and original play with robots, live actors, video and remote participants.
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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 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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Tableaux Vivant Dans Un Monde Parfait was an interactive robotic installation. The work featured stereotypical “his” and “her” robots, directed by onsite users, which roamed a model home on the site of a factory manufacturing prefabricated homes in Brandenburg, Germany. The work was exhibited at Areale99 in Art in the Industrial Sector in 1999.
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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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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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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
Commentary
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.
- 1960s
- 2010s
- 21st century
- Acting
- Active Analysis
- Actor Training
- Chay Yew
- Erwin Piscator
- Futurism
- Intermedial Performance
- John Gillett
- Konstantin Stanislavski
- Laurie Anderson
- Live Internet Performance
- Liveness
- Multimedia Theatre & Performance
- Orlan
- Practical Lecture
- Psychophysical Acting
- Realism
- Rose Bruford College
- Stelarc
- Symbolism
- University of California Davis
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