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CFS Nominee; Best Prod1
DIRECTED by Laura Lounge and Aaron Naylor WRITTEN by Ben Hume
STARRING Austin Maldonado Brian Kusic Brooklyn Mishcke
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERCarlos Gonzalez PRODUCERLaura Lounge DIRECTOR of PHOTOGRAPHYAlec Chramosta EDITED byBen Hume SCORE byNeal Evans CASTING by Laura Lounge
SomethingWICKED
a film by Laura Lounge
with Brian Kusic, Shylin Bustillos, Sofia Fischer, and JD Dank
Director of Photography, Max Johnson
Original Score, Neal Evans
Crew, Preston Plourd, William Watkins
I miss you.
I miss you.
by Laura Lounge
a fragment as part of the ScenoGANG: Spectacular! Spectacular! Festival
Interdisciplinary Practices, Scenography cluster
MFA Advanced Theatre Practice
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Tutors: Dan Scott and Andreas Skourtis
Collaborators: Peiyu Huang and Antonietta Mazzei
Audience Reflection Contributors: Sophia Utria, Antonietta Mazzei, Lauren Stone-Symes, Kendra Miller, Dan Scott, Dana McMillian, Billie Harrison, Peiyu Huang, Gaurav Singh
Video Reflection
This is a compilation of unedited audio audience reflections. The video is an unedited excerpt from the performance. The video is not meant to capture the piece, but as documentation for the artist.
Audience Prompt: Because the main focus of this fragment is its ‘liveness’, please take a moment to video journal a reflection of any one of the meatspace elements.
Here are some reflections.
meatS P A C E Theatre Company
Devisers' Note
MeatSPACE Theatre presents Mind The Lag, a multisensory performance piece that explores (dis)connection in the digital age, welcoming the dawning of a new era in theatre-making and performance techniques by blurring the origin of the live event.
Utilising international performance spaces and mediated images, a digital avatar is born out of cyberspace and into the meatspace. Can an ‘avatar’ achieve agency outside the computerised world? As the audience watches these avatars acquire ever more human processing power, will they escape the productivity the matrix demands, or will they discover agency to escape to the unknown?
New skin, new muscles, new limbs, a spine and a semi-functional digestive system are not the only things our avatars will discover as they explore captivity, consciousness, and connection.
Remember, stay true and be free. Meet you in the meatspace.
Above Video: a note on Composition from the Director
DOCUMENTATION of live encounter
Mind The Lag is a multisensory performance piece that explores (dis)connection in the digital age, welcoming the dawn of a new era in theatre-making and performance techniques by blurring the origin of the live event.
Utilising international performance spaces and mediated images, a digital avatar is born out of cyberspace and into the meatspace. Can a digital avatar achieve agency outside the computerised world? As these avatars acquire ever more human processing power, are they able escape the productivity the matrix demands? Or can they acquire agency to escape to the unknown?