Performance
Digital Redux #1
16 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Fri, 16 Sep
- 19:00 – 20:30
Free admission
Address
- 40 High Street
- Brentford
- TW8 0DS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus 65, 237, 267, and N9 all stop outside Watermans
- Tube: South Ealing (Piccadilly) and Gunnersbury (District) at about 1 mile (Zone 3)
- Train: Kew Bridge & Brentford (trains from Waterloo and Hounslow) are a 10 minute walk
Performance night - cross streaming - a unique international collaboration between Watermans and WRO arts centre in Wroclaw
About
In this first event Abstract Encounters by Blanca Regina and Pierre Bouvier Patron will be performed live in Watermans Theatre, with a live audience and streamed to WRO in Poland to a live audience there. Mikro Orchestra will then perform PermaNoise live in WRO, Poland and this will be live streamed to the audience in Watermans. Audience interactions will be monitored through audiences personal devices for those wishing to participate.
Live in Watermans: Blanca Regina and Pierre Bouvier Patron - Abstract Encounters
Abstract Encounters is a new audio visual performance by Blanca Regina and Pierre Bouvier Patron that explores; symbolic gestures; affinity with nature and questions about presence; space and its representation in the digital age.
Live streamed from WRO to Watermans Theatre, Poland: Mikro Orchestra -PermaNoise
Four “sound operators” during the concert will play or create live, on archaic game consoles, minimalist musical forms.
In a unique international collaboration between Watermans and WRO arts centre in Wroclaw, Poland we will be experimenting with different approaches in the presentation and promotion of artists' work working in the field of new media art. We will explore the possibilities of remote collaboration, searching for ways of more climate-conscious dissemination of media art, experimenting, learning and drawing conclusions are all part of the Digital Redux mission. We will attempt to create a new context for the meeting of co-creators and co-participants of performance events, limiting at the same time the carbon footprint and the need for artists to travel while preserving the phenomenon of participation.
Through DIGITAL REDUX we hope to transcend the current limitations on the availability of art, to enable artists to reach their audiences, to ensure proper communication, and to restore artistic activity to culture in a context of social constraints and the disappearance of complex, multidimensional works from the shared cultural space. Can we keep audiences engaged remotely, not just a consumer of content but a viewer that is still overwhelmingly stimulated even without the community experience?
