When: August 30 — September 8
Where: Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St, Austin, Texas 78701; remote screenings TBA
Price: Pay what you can; reservations recommended
Tags: #immersivetheatre, #dance, #livestream, #socialmedia, #interactive, #ContactAdvisory, #ContentAdvisory (see below)
“A staged rehearsal of possible cyborg realities,” the piece uses dance as a method to interrogate how emergent technologies de-center the body and offers audience-participants opportunities to assert their humanity in an increasingly opaque technoworld. In-person viewers of each performance will be joined by audiences at other locations screening an interactive livestream of the piece and using their phones to shape the action remotely. As an integrated part of the transmedia piece, ARCOS presents a mixed-media photography exhibition by interdisciplinary artists Carla Alcántara and Sarah Navarrete.
Ether Junk is the culmination of a series of experiments exploring the integration of online livestreaming video with performance that ARCOS has been conducting over the last three years in residencies, performances, and exhibitions in Kentucky, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia. Inspired by the radical potential for connection and agency demonstrated by tech-savvy activists in the twenty-first century, ARCOS seeks to “hack” common technological mechanisms and behaviors, such as mobile devices, earbuds, social media, and selfies. Hacking these interfaces, or repurposing them into performance for other than their originally intended uses, Ether Junk subverts the borders constructed around us all by internal and external forces.
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Contact Level: Light (Business/Acquaintance), voluntary/with consent.
Content Advisories: Mature themes, including nudity and various content that generates warnings on social media platforms. Flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy. There are brief periods of darkness.
In-person audience members may use their own devices and headphones to access parts of the piece.
The performance is available for those who can’t stand or walk for long periods of time (the audience will be mostly seated throughout). The venue and performance are fully ADA-accessible (accommodation requests are invited during ticket reservation).
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