Facebook Re-enactments by Ursula Endlicher (part of Levels of Undo) :: September 9 - October 30, 2009 :: Opening: September 9; 6:00 -8:00 pm :: Location One, 26 Greene Street, New York City.

Facebook Re-enactments is a video-performance piece based on this year’s Location One Virtual Residency (May 15 - August 15, 2009) artists names on Facebook: Jessica Curry, Ursula Endlicher, Narinda Reeders, and Ben Woodeson.

Responding to Facebook’s “logic” and “environment”, social behavior, and the intrinsic habits of its users — plus personal experiences with name misspellings triggering mix-ups and false links — I was inspired to question online identity once again. (After the high of net art questioning “ID” online in the late 1990s it seems interesting to me that it is still very much a topic). So I searched on these (our) four names — to possibly find out more about my residency mates — and used the returned “identities” and images for each name search as scenarios to be restaged and reenacted in RL.

Facebook Re-enactments — a piece about networked structures, identities, and online behavior - sent me out into the “fields”, put me on a horse, let me work with children and dogs… — Ursula Endlicher.

On view starting September 9 at Location One in New York, and soon also online!

(Note: this is one of a few pieces of mine that won’t need a live internet connection; this is rather rare for me…. but it is nevertheless a piece about networked structures and behavior :-))

Facebook Re-enactments
by Ursula Endlicher
2009
DVD
19 minutes