Prelude 10 is here....(in web version at least - in person version coming Sept 29th!)

Go check it out!
PRELUDE 10 IS LIVE!


My Curatorial Statement starts like this...

Techniques for Live Stimulation...

Back in the days of VHS, when video first began to find its way cheaply and easily into the black boxes of theater, scholars killed many trees debating the merits of and limits to what constituted “live” art. The question here, “Why does live matter?”, is not why does analog performance matter?, or why should audiences leave their TVs at home and come sit in the dark of a theater? Everything we do as human beings is inherently live; whether or not the experience is mediated by technology is irrelevant because all experience is mediated by some technology - biological, synthetic or otherwise. Instead, for us, what is at stake in “live” is a matter of perspective. Are you engaging in the experience from a position of commodified estrangement or from a position of unfettered conscious inquiry and social collaboration?

In this particular context Prelude 10’s question ‘Why does live matter?” becomes: “Why does performance that asks us to be inquisitive and socially engaged human beings matter?”

Keep reading on the Prelude site