Rebecca Allen

The Brain Stripped Bare

media art installation/performance by Rebecca Allen in collaboration with osseus labyrint

The Brain Stripped Bare

The Brain Stripped Bare

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PREMIERE: July 5th, 20.00h
July 6 at 22.00h, July 7 at 20.00h at the Duisburger Akzente

FURTHER PERFORMANCES: September 12-14, 2002 tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
tickets: tel.+49-(0)211-172700 www.tanzhaus-nrw.de

THE BRAIN STRIPPED BARE

The rhein.tanzmedia.net-Prize of the international competition rhein.tanzmedia.web went to the American media artist Rebecca Allen for her project “The Brain Stripped Bare” which will be premiered at the Akzente Festival in Duisburg.

THE BRAIN STRIPPED BARE considers a future where we live simultaneously in multiple realities, where the boundaries between physical and virtual reality are blurred and thoughts are expressed telepathically.

Advanced technology can provide an enhanced life experience but with this comes sophisticated forms of surveillance that track our behaviors, our movements and our identity. Technology can strip away our layers of privacy.

In this performance both the body and the mind are exposed. Unlike traditional theater that separates the audience from the performers, the performers surround and infiltrate the audience.

Surrounded by a circle of screens the audience is free to shift their point of view. Live performers merge with shadows, projected images and sounds, revealing stark human forms that move in startling and perplexing ways. This creates a raw, very physical yet illusory interactive experience that connects an audience to a performance in a way not previously explored.

BIOGRAPHIES

REBECCA ALLEN is an internationally recognized media artist inspired by the potential of advanced technology, the aesthetics of motion and the study of behavior. Her work takes the form of interactive art installations, computeranimated films and live multimedia performances. Performance work includes collaborations with Twyla Tharp, Joffrey Ballet, La Fura dels Baus, Peter Gabriel and Kraftwerk. Allen was founding chair of the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts, where she is currently a professor. Her work is exhibited and published internationally and is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou and Whitney Museum of American Art.

OSSEUS LABYRINT manifests accumulated data from billions of years of evolving and recombining of matter and energy that has occurred for all things animate and inanimate to be present at this moment. Founded and directed by Hannah Sim and Mark Steger, osseus labyrint has inhabited extreme, remote, conventional and self-made environments, appearing, filming and building things since 1989. osseus labyrint's works have been presented live and broadcast throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and over the World Wide Web.







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Veranstalter

rhein.tanzmedia.net, a network for international media art and performance

Kontakt

tanz performance köln, tel:49-(0)221-722133 info@tanzperformance.net

Veranstaltungsort

Duisburg (D), Ausstellungshalle am Innenhafen, Philosophenweg (entrance opposite of the Museum Küppersmühle) tickets: tel. +49-(0)203-94000 www.duisburger-akzente.de, Deutschland

Partner / Sponsoren

A production of rhein.tanzmedia.net, a project by rhein land ag in the frame of the international competition rhein.tanzmedia.web

Sponsored by: Kultur 2000 - Bildung und Kultur, rhein land ag, Ministerium für Städtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bonn, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Köln, Intel Research Council, MIT Media Laboratory

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» http://www.rheintanzmedia.net

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, 01.07.2002

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