Ephemeral City: Speakers: Kora Van den Bulcke and Thomas Soetens (Workspace Unlimited), Jason Crow, M.Arch Ph.D. candidate, Department of Architecture, McGill University; Direction: Chris Salter :: December 3, 2009; 6:00 – 8:00 pm :: CCA/Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Maison Shaughnessy. 1920, rue Baile, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

What can games and gaming experience reveal about the city? How does play in public spaces differ from solitary play. What new aesthetic social practices might arise as a result of the mixing between the physical urban space and the digital realm. This forum will feature research and artistic projects that take gaming beyond the single computer screen and into the urban realm, both real and imaginary. Continue reading

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. Continue reading

In The City is Creative — by Michelle Teran — everyday performative acts, as depicted on YouTube videos, are located and reenacted in the city where they took place.

People meet in different ways now, even in the most strangest manner. Imagine flying over a city and witnessing all the things that are taking place there. Connect to Google Earth and find Eindhoven, a small city in The Netherlands. As you get closer, a number of YouTube videos appear on top of the city. As you bring up each video you start to experience what is taking place there. Continue reading

MGandhi Performs the Torture Memos :: July 4, 2009; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm [PST] :: Second Life: Odyssey Art and Performance.

MGandhi Chakrabarti (aka Joseph DeLappe) presents a performative reading in Second Life of the recently released and now infamous Bush-era Torture Memos. MGandhi will read the memos verbatim, all 121 pages, from his jail cell in Second Life, beginning at 9am SLT.

MGandhi is presently imprisoned in a reproduction of the Yeravda Prison in SL for a 9-month durational reenactment of Gandhi’s 1930 post-Salt March jail sentence.  Continue reading

Re:Parallax — Call for Participation: No professional performers, but YOU as the center of attention in Re:Parallax. Become part of the re-enactment of the performance Parallax by Zhana Ivanova. Take your picture in a professionally lit photo set according to the artists directions. Every photo is one image, one frame in a growing online imagebank. Together these pictures form a stop-motion film, which will be shown in the exhibition space. Re:Parallax is part of the exhibition WatSpinoza?. Continue reading

Re-creation of Without Sun :: Call for Dancer and Actor.

Without Sun is a collection of found performance documentation from the internet which creates a 15 minute pseudo-narrative focused on the exterior surface of the “projection of self” into visionary worlds. Named after the classic Chris Marker video Sans Soliel, the work combines footage of several individuals on a psychedelic substance.

Performers will re-create Without Sun at Machine Project. Auditions will take place on June 7th in the evening. Continue reading

RE:akt! Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting with Lucas Bambozzi, Vaginal Davis, Janez Jan a, Janez Jan a, Janez Jan a, Eva and Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.ORG), SilentCell Network (Mare Bulc, Janez Jan a, Bojana Kunst, Igor Stromajer); curated by Domenico Quaranta :: March 25 – April 17, 2009 :: Book Launch and Opening: March 25, 2009; 7:00 – 9:00 pm :: Galerija kuc, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

During recent years the term re-enactment and the practices it refers to have enjoyed increasing success in the artistic context. On one hand, the success of re-enactment appears to be connected to a parallel, vigorous return to performance art, both as a genre practiced by the new generations, and as an artistic practice with its own historicization. Continue reading

Theater of Code — with Ursula Endlicher, Adrianne Wortzel, MTAA; Curated by Christiane Paul :: March 3, 2009; 7:30 pm :: Light Industry, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, New York.

Theater of Code will present three performance / interventions that explore how computer code, scripting language, and software applications relate to the movement of bodies and the staging and choreography of our lives.

Adrianne Wortzel’s A Re-enactment of The Battle of the Pyramids is a performance installation of reconfigured robotic toys performing military maneuvers in rigid choreographed formations. Continue reading

Lebensraum / Living Space — a public performance :: January 18, 2009; 2:00 – 4:00 pm :: Starting from and returning to Project Space 176, 176 Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town, London, we will be walking along Prince of Wales Road.

Lebensraum is a series of movies dealing with ‘living space’. Through case studies of specific places and historical events, the filmmaking process is used as an intervention. A dynamic relationship is established between the spaces of: 1) research (scriptwriting, archive work); 2) staging (performance, re-enactment); and 3) presentation (screening, discussion). Continue reading

“[…] The idea of this work more than its execution is the compelling element. Anyone who has clipped articles out of a newspaper, saved snippets of poetry or edited together their own home videos has experienced the process that is re-created in “Dolls”. But (Kate) Armstrong cleverly nurtures a circumstance of wry tension that illustrates the fraying tether between traditional literary and neo-digital expression. The same page never appears twice but the user can capture and save a favorite page. This is an intriguing re-enactment of the experience of reading a narrative book where particular passages haunt the imagination and are saved to our cognitive hard drive. Continue reading