hello all, in the recent thread, I responded very briefly to a discussion we've had about/with Barriedale Operahouse. I then described a "performance system" which we exhibited to the public last week. My comment that <<we didn't have 'technology' there somewhere hidden in the no-man's land">> was entirely ironic, and I don't think I was dwelling on visibility of our laptop performers at all, just noting it, since they were part of the work. Nor was I at at all suggesting that I am interested in using <<'technology for technology's sake'>>. Quite on the contrary, if we must talk about red herrings, I think it's a herring to try to separate our real-time instruments from the aesthetics or the creative process and the synaesthetic experience our audience has or the meanings they will find resonant in the performance (of the system). It's good if we are open to all possibilities, here in our discourse and in our communities, and not just the somatic ones or the movement possibilities, but also all the others that have to do with why we perform. And here I may add - that it indeed amazes me that we come back so often, in this list, to thinking of computers or softwares as distractions from choreography, or as (perhaps, it it implied) insufficiently or unsuccessfully or unbrilliantly incorporated in the works or the communicative lives. How so? Why so, and what are the criteria? Okay, so let's stop worrying about visibility. I never was worried. On the other hand, nor do I worry about incorporating the media; all the work I have done has always been hybrid, and hybrid are our processes, and our performance methods. Sarah, I don't think I was talking about "displaying technologies" - I don't know what that is. Thinking of this hybrid work, I'll end here adapting a sentence from filmmaker Trinh: <<To cut across boundaries is to live aloud the malaise of categories and labels. It is to resist simplistic attempts at classifying, to resist the comfort of belonging to a cultural or aesthetic genre, and of producing classifiable works.>> (When the Moon Waxes Red) greetings Johannes Birringer AlienNation Co. http://www.aliennationcompany.com http://dance.ohio-state.edu/Dance_and_Technology/
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