SECOND LIFE PHOENIX SCRATCH COMMISSION #2 NIKI McCRETTON presents VIRAL DUETS

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Phoenix Scratch in Second Life® continues as dancer and performance artist Niki McCretton invites you to meet her 'in world' to co-create a one-to-one, spontaneous movement-based performance. Afterwards, you will be given tools to take away and encouraged to recreate the performance with other avatars, spreading your duet like a virus through SL. These viral duets will be documented and archived in a SL gallery, and will be relayed live into the public space on the ground floor of Exeter Phoenix. Niki will draw on motion capture technology, working with animators Susan Sloan and Adam Vanner from the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University. For more information, visit www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/scratch.php. Niki McCretton is known for creating accessible cross-art form performances. Recent work includes Relative (a co-production with digital artist Kathy Hinde) which explored the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren, and Space 50, a piece she made to celebrate half a century of space travel.