IRIS is a multimedia theatre movement work, premiering in Spring 2010. It is
an experiment, an evening-length piece being developed through residencies
and work in progress showings; equipment borrowed from Digital Performance
Institute is being used to explore the visuals.

The character IRIS, her predicament and her inner world are developing
through improvisation, which started with a black wig, a colored tie, and
then movement. How to relate the content of the movement to the content of
the visuals is a continual question. What do I want to say. How do I say it?

In the first of four sections, there is at various times the sounds of birds
and dogs barking. A window, which had always been part of the piece in my
mind, soon appears on the back wall, and moving branches come and go. The
props in IRIS¹s bedroom include large purple bras and high heels, as she is
exploring her feminity, sexuality, power. I have experimented with various
types of imagery. This includes images of a Victoria Secret catalogue which,
through the program Isadora, enlarge & reduce areas of the images through a
fisheye lens ... to a large bra, surrounded in color, in which one layer of
the bra expands and contracts with the movements of the performer ... to a
single bra tumbling out of a light, turning and expanding until it overtakes
the screen and disappears.

The character¹s projected shadow is something I am very interested to
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The Miseries of Doctor Tutto
missives from Tonga

Is an as it happens blog of the events of one Joseph Silovsky.

Joe's stories adventures along with the story of Jesse Bogdonoff are portrayed in The Jester Of Tonga

THE JESTER OF TONGA

PS122

Nov 13-23
Wed-Sat 8pm
Sun 6:30pm
$20, $15, $10

Silovsky and his robot Stanley tell the very true and complex story
of Jesse Bogdonoff, the sensational modern-day Court Jester to the
Tongan Royal Court. Twenty suitcases packed full with island lore spill
their secrets, scandals and adventures onto the stage.

Joe is a quintessential brilliant and quirky mad scientist type; who is constantly derailed from his story telling by the technology and his own exuberant interest in absolutely everything.  But the digressions are the fabulously interesting, and he's got Stanley the robot to keep him on track and tell you all about the woes cased by the last big financial bump on Wall Street.

I imaging there will be a few pore sole will be run out of town in the dead of night due to this financial crisis.  But I very much doubt they'll have as odd a story as Mr. Bogdonoff or as entertaining a chronicler as Mr. Silovsky.

T-Minus 2008 - time-art festival
Galapagos Art Space
Nov 25th
7PM 11PM $7

T-Minus is an annual screening of media art that focuses on the manipulation of time. 

What slows down when everything speeds up? Why do things that move fast demonstrate a unique inner peace when viewed from a different speed? What are the defining patterns in the world of motion? T-Minus is a film festival that gathers together audio and video pieces that address these questions.

What does that mean, probably really cool time-lapse and Slow Motion footage, both of which have always been extremely intriguing twist on ways of seeing things that I can't normally see.

Be Counted.

Hey I'm a fan of data, so I think it's swell that someone wants to collect some about me; as long as it's not my SSN, DOB, etc...

According to the New York Innovative Theatre Awards site.

"While the Off-Off-Broadway (OOB) community encompasses hundreds of
companies and thousands of theatre artists, there exists virtually no
statistical information about this vast and diverse community. In an
endeavor to create a baseline for this important information, we are
conducting a series of survey programs."

They were hoping to get 6000 responses by Oct.   It's a bit past that date but the form is still up, and I think there must be way more than 6000 individual artists in NY, so spend 3 min and make yourself counted.   (it worked for the election!)

http://www.nyitawards.com/survey/oobdemographics.asp

Hello, everyone. I'm here on this site because I work in rhetoric and performance. Among other things, in June 2009 I'll be leading the workshop on rhetoric and performance described below. The application deadline is 12/1/08.

Performance is everywhere within the rhetorical tradition, and everyone in rhetorical studies works on performance to some degree, whether his or her focus is traditions of oratory and other forms of oral communication, theories of linguistic performativity and language-based agency, pedagogy and the history of rhetorical education, assessment of individuals', groups', or machines' performance capacity/capability, identity-building rituals and everyday practices, etc.

Despite the length and scope of this list, we have relatively few resources for the study of rhetorical performance. We have no discipline-specific guide to past and present concepts of performance; we have no map of developments in rhetorical performance over time, place, and technology; and we have no clearinghouse for ideas and materials currently in use. This workshop is for graduate students and faculty who are interested in collaboratively addressing and correcting this lack.
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DPI:

Would you be willing to share any of your production documentation?

Hal Eagar:

OK let me find some...

How about "Disposable Men"since it's going out on tour again next week I've had to use my documentation to figure out how to do it again.  This documentation is great for packing and seting up the show, but of course has none of the cues which are in the stage managers book only.  And does not cover the software setup.   I think I may have written that up, but maybe I just brain dump it to the video operator?   This time I'll try to write it up and add it to this post perhaps.   A video of the piece is of course as I mentoned also a key part of the documentation to see what it is you are trying to recreate.

Pack List and Wireing Diagram

Tech Rider

For reference here are some photos of the show being refrenced here.

I urge you to check out the Map Fund Grant oportunity.

November 3rd, 2008:
Guidelines available and online application open

January 20th, 2009:
MAP FUND DEADLINE

http://www.mapfund.org/apply.html

Happy to be here for the 2008-2009 DPI Residency.  I'll be developing a performance using the rope&pulley media control system I created.  

Last week, I did some preparatory experiments for my DPI residency at the DeBaun Auditorium with Wendy Richmond. More to come on those experiments soon!