Ladies and gentlemen. Presenting
SLAG
(Second Life Art Group)
As a small collective we are interested in the ways a person may represent themslves in a un-monitored, anonymous virtual realm. We seek to juxtapose this with a similar representation of self in a real world situation, immediate and personal. We will pose the open question, Tell us a Story. The boundaries of this question being intentionally vague. What is a story? Who is a story about? Does a story present a truth? Can a story tell a story about the self? Is a story personal or impersonal? Fictional or Factual? When posed with this question, how will the stories differ between the two realms of existance?
We will stage two story telling events, one in the online world of Second Life, and one in an analogous place in the Real World. We will ask people and avatars to tell us a story and these will be recorded.
These stories will form the text and basis for a realworld live event. a multi/inter medial performance. The stories will act as a script, and will be both enacted out, analysed and juxtaposed against each other. Ideally this performance will be simulcast in the realm of Second Life as well. We hope to embody both the virtual and breathing avatars of average participants.
We are interested in how the simple idea of storytelling is altered through different forms or percieved contact. In an anonymous, virtual world, where speech is untraceable, and people are un-recognisable, will the stories be different to a traceable, recognisable and known real world?
So keep your eyes here for when you can participate and become part of the SLAG project.
Julia, Leigh, Audrey, Sam, Boris.
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This sounds great. My feedback on your paper proposal asked you to clarify the relationship between story and performance event, but here I see you've shifted the terms of your presentation to focus more on the act of storytelling itself in Real and SL realms (which sounds fascinating to me!). I can see the influence of Blast Theory here, a well as the reading on Facebook. You might want to make explicit connections to these class sources in your presentations (ie the audience will share reference points with you). For one thing, how is your proposed multi- / inter- medial performance work importantly different from the kinds of dualities of 'realities' that Blast Theory tries to inhabit?
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