protoPLAY

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protoPLAY are currently developing a new piece called 2(two). So far the work has been made twice with the same funamental structure but quite different aesthetic outcomes. The work is at once playfull, engaged, engaging and conceptual, and we are very keen to explore how it can be developed in the near future. To this end we’d be happy to hear from potential partners and venues who would like to consider being involved in the next phases of the projects development as a performance, installation, video-work or performance-installation. 2(two)’s new incarnations will persue new aethetics, and new media.

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DOCUMENTATION

Article about protoPLAY’s group performance, 2(two) at Shunt on Axis website by Anna Dimitriu:

http://www.axisweb.org/pbFull.aspx?SID=19672

VIDEO OF PERFORMANCE

AND NEWS..! protoPLAY have developed 2(two) in Estonia in April 2009 at the Diverse Universe Festival organised by Non Grata in Estonia, as well as a new performance, working title: ‘When Ideas Become Objects, Then Objects Are Ideas’. Details coming soon.

2 (Two): The work is informed by protoPLAY’s ongoing investigation into collaboration and issues around notions authorship contemporary society the problematics of individual identity, and strategies for group creative space.
Audience put their head through holes under a raised platform, on which the performance is taking place. Underneath other audience members would see headless bodies, and above, disembodied heads would surround the performance area. 2 clearly destabilises the clear split or boundary which traditional structure of the spectacle makes between the audience and the performance. Whereas traditionally the passive subject is emphasized by watching actions made subjects and objects from a far, in 2 the head, the actual priviledged seat of the subject is made into an object (separated from body) on the floor, which is then plays an intrinsic part within the performance space.
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