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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
University of Salford
Somewhere Between Heaven and Earth (2008)
digital performance works in which on-stage performers converse with (humanly) impossible performers onscreen
Almost, Blue and Fly me to the moon: three originally devised digital performance works in which on-stage performers converse with (humanly) impossible performers onscreen. Income - £25,000.00 from Arts Council England and AHRC practice-led research award: ‘The effects on performance methodology of the introduction of a cartoon performer: from the perspective of the writer and performer’ £14,373.00.
The project's focus, was greatly influenced by the theory first proposed by Philip Auslander in Liveness :performance in a mediatized society (1999:51) that challenged conventional interpretations of live performance as that which is non-reproducable (Phelan 1993) to include mediatized performance modes. Prior to this stage, very little research had been undertaken on how digital presentation methods had impacted on the relationship of the on-stage and onscreen performer. I attempted to counter Auslander’s view that there is always a conflict of attention between the live and the mediatized performer and consistently tested whether it is possible to create an equitable presence between the on-stage and onscreen performer by using story as the unifying medium. Each work introduced a different kind of digital performer using animation and hi-definition composite video techniques which in turn impacted greatly on the devising methodology employed.
