Title: "2FACE" street performance version
Category: Performance
Year: 2009

Synopsis: This collaborative piece, with Julie Fotheringham, was performed at various outdoor public locations, the first being the BETAspaces festival in Brooklyn. The two performers enact several vignettes which depict mostly troubled aspects of interactions in a fictional relationship. Although the two characters are always in close proximity physically, s/he sees the other as a screen-based (mediated, removed, artificial) character. Almost all contact is electronic rather than physical. For the street-based performance, the sequence of parts shown in this video is repeated for as long as necessary. More info on Julie Fotheringham here.

Production Notes: The piece uses personally customized battery-powered portable electronics, such as small live video cameras connected to LCDs and a microcassette connected to a small amp. The pre-composed musical soundtrack plays during the performance, allowing me to do join in the choreography/movement. For the music, I improvised with used 3 music boxes, mandolin, a toy computer and a toy keyboard, which were recorded directly to microcasette. The microcassette plays back at half-speed, making the instruments sound deeper and slower.