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===Wooster Group=== | ===Wooster Group=== | ||
* Based in Wooster | * Based in Wooster St, NY, in the Performing Garage. | ||
* Linked TV & performance | * Linked TV & performance | ||
* Pioneered use of 'Surveillance image' in art - parallel images; recorded TV alongside other live image | * Pioneered use of 'Surveillance image' in art - parallel images; recorded TV alongside other live image | ||
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Wed 8 Feb 2012 RWR
Prisoners Dilemma, Richard Serra
- Dramatized enactment of prisoners dilemma with Spalding Grey.
- Performed in front of an audience, then two audience members are picked to re-play it themselves.
- They also betray each other.
- Use of theatre in television - live audience, also being filmed. Actors also speak direct to camera
- First half is like a cop show; then moves to gameshow form - observes that psychology experiments (eg Milgram's 'obedience to authority) closely resemble conditions of reality TV.
Wooster Group
- Based in Wooster St, NY, in the Performing Garage.
- Linked TV & performance
- Pioneered use of 'Surveillance image' in art - parallel images; recorded TV alongside other live image
- 'Root 1 and 9' - actors make real phonecalls from the stage. Live performance vs mediated performance
- In trad theatre, information is passed directly from one character to another. Wooster group tried to reflect modern reality - info is transmitted by various media, not directly from other people
- Talking about experience of viewing TV - clicking thru channels; echoes what ppl say now about interwebs; simultaneity
- "LSD" - rehearsed the Crucible while on LSD; filmed it, then reconstructed it in minute detail (using video timeline) into a stage performance. Paradox of messy vs. minutely timed. References W Borroughs; also a theorist of technology.
- Performances take as a given that viewers will take the various images offered and piece them together into something comprehensible themselves; mirrors contemporary media environment.
Discussion:
- Wooster-group style performances have become an orthodoxy - see Forced Entertainment etc.
- Why is this kind of work still made, and still considered new & radical?
- Wooster group not fetishing technology; including it to be 'hip' - actually the opposite, showing that we're naturalised to pervasive media
- When does theatre (read - 'live') become TV (read - performed for camera)? What about plays written for TV?