[CREATE] 121212: Walking Backwards into the Future

[helen varley jamieson]

hi everyone,
the first part of the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance: "Walking 
Backwards into the Future" begins this wednesday 5 december!!! a media 
release is copied below & you can download the full release and schedule 
in pdf format here: 
http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212_WBIFRelease.pdf and 
the flyer here: 
http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212UpStageFestivalofCyberformance.png

please help us to spread the word by forwarding this to your networks. 
we look forward to an exciting festival & hope you will join us online!

helen & vicki :)


    The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance begins this Wednesday,
    5 December, with a retrospective programme entitled "Walking
    Backwards into the Future."

    Proverbs from many cultures express the concept of "walking
    backwards into the future" (in Maori, "ka mura, ka muri"), to learn
    from those who have gone before us as we forge new paths; it is also
    a quote from media theorist Marshall McLuhan. In this spirit, the
    first part of the 121212 UpStage Festival seeks to acknowledge and
    celebrate the body of cyberformance work that has been created since
    the first UpStage festival in 2007.

    Walking Backwards into the
    Future(http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3430) takes place from
    5-11 December, and is followed by a programme of new works, Testing
    1 2, 1 2, 1 2 (http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=3447), over 27
    hours on Wednesday 12 December (with a bit on the 11th and 13th,
    depending on your time zome).

    Opening the festival is /Come and Go/by Avatar Body /Collision/, the
    cyberformance troupe who initiated UpStage in 2003. In this
    cyberformance the group faithfully represent's Samuel Beckett's
    short play /Come and Go/in the online environment. The avatars'
    words and actions adhere strictly to the script, under the watchful
    eye of a tyrannical director and with comments from Beckett himself.

    Other highlights from 070707 are: /Baba Yaga/, incorporating shadow
    puppet techniques into a beautiful cyberformance: /Freeze Flight or
    Fight/, which invites audiences to share their experiences of
    dealing with rejection; /Learn to Hear Through the Lies of Your
    Eyes: The Cyberforming Hybridization of Tuxedomoon/, which
    "addresses the position of the contemporary musician in a relation
    to predominantly scopophilic regime of the Artworld based on
    information technology"; and /Interface/, a playful face-to-face
    meeting on the surface of the interface.

     From the 080808 UpStage Festival, there is: /Calling Home: The Big
    Get-Together,/the show which spawned the cyberformance troupe
    Activelayers; RxEgo-go, exploring the role of medi(c)ation in a
    symptomatized, technologized society; /Mysterious Mali's Drawings/,
    a super-hero tale by children in Brisbane; and /Veni! Ελθέ! Dodji!
    to the Zapata Private/Pirate Birthday Party. And, Vice Versa …/a
    cyberformance celebration of the birthday of Mexican revolutionary
    Emilio Zapata.

    A "kitchen of the future" is the setting for /The Dish/, originally
    presented at the 090909 festival. From 101010, /MASS-MESS /explores
    the meaning of symbols in a world of mass production, and /S/Zports:
    A Training for the Possible Wor(l)ds///applies the vocabulary of
    sports to alternative social relations. And from last year's
    festival, 11:11:11, we have /Flat Earth/- a poetic journey on the
    source of ideas - and /Magfalda Meets the World in Pieces/- a
    journey of discovery.

    All of the performances are accessible to online audiences via a
    standard web browser: visit www.upstage.org.nz to find live links to
    the stages at the performance time.

    On Thursday 6 December there will be a "node" - screening of
    performances at a physical venue - at Odin Teatret in Holstebro,
    Denmark, from 4pm-6pm CET.

    The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance is organised by
    Festival Architects Vicki Smith and Helen Varley Jamieson, with a
    team of dedicated volunteers and the talented artists. It is the
    sixth annual festival of cyberformance - live online interactive
    events created and presented for online audiences.

Download the full release and schedule here:
http://upstage.org.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/121212_WBIFRelease.pdf

    *For more information,
    visit www.upstage.org.nz or email info at upstage.org.nz*

    *Your donation to UpStage
    is much appreciated and will help
    to make 121212 a success!
    http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=278
    *



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helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
helen at creative-catalyst.com    
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.make-shift.net
http://www.upstage.org.nz
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