Hello Community,
My performance and technology collective, Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality, will present our augmented reality performance, Kjell Theøry, at Links Hall tonight and tomorrow night as part of the Trade Routes festival. The full work will take place over both nights as episodes that can be experienced individually or consecutively.
Kjell Theøry (2017) is an augmented reality performance that juxtaposes Alan Turing’s mathematical descriptions of nature with algorithmic mutations of Guillaume Apollinaire’s 1917 play The Breasts of Tiresias, a genderfluid spectacle for which the author invented the word surrealism. The work is staged as a queer fertility ritual between physical and virtual worlds.
For Trade Routes, Kjell Theøry is performed over two nights in discrete but continuous parts.
Part I: December 7th, 7pm
Part II: December 8th, 9pm
"ATOM-r," blurs multiple lines: between performance art and theater, theater and installation art, installation art and video, video and poetry. The group aims to question formal practice, the boundaries and binaries that tend to delimit image making and performance. By confounding form, ATOM-r simultaneously grapples with historical mechanics of homosexuality and queerness, and with how queer aesthetics have carried over to a society newly augmented by technology.’ Sasha Geffen, Chicago Reader
Cheers
Judd