Incidentally the revolution will be televised
With one head for business and another for good looks until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher’s hooks. - Elvis Costello
With one head for business and another for good looks until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher’s hooks. - Elvis Costello
Gob Squad’s Revolution now! is the second performance I have seen during the Lift Festival at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). Gob Squad launched a revolution from the inside theatre building to the outside wold, attempt to break the “participation rules”, between the audiences, the potential audience (who outside the theatre) and performers. “Gob Squad take the dreaded words of “audience participation” to a new level in their performance” Jake said.
All of the audiences and performers dependent on cameras, monitors, microphones and speakers to communicate with people who walk on the street outside ICA. One camera and one TV are set on the street where the TV displays our stage and auditorium. “Gob Squad want to electrify the masses and take advantage of the capabilities of a large media production: cameras, live links, big screens, wireless transmitters and very long cables”. The goal of this revolution is to get a member of the outside world to join us. This is really a big challenge that Gob Squad tried to ask people to make change, but who beyond a certain theatrical context. Especially who do not believe the little change and do not want to have a change in UK.
By broadcasting to the outside world, we desire for a revolution right now. It is fact that few people stopped and tried to understand what was happened in the theatre, what informations we want to convey. Gob Squad shown up the specific aspect of our negative audience. Most of the audiences don not like to shift the position with the performer, instead of sitting and watching the show. But the task is finally successful. Gob Squad have break the audience’s conventional believe about theatre. Obviously we all experienced a fantastic night.
What’s more, Theatre is getting wise to the digital age, high tech holds the power to engage audiences to interact with performers within live performance. The performance reminded me another example: that is Rimini Protokoll’ Best Before, which is also one part of the Lift Festival. The Canadian based company created a virtual realm video game, allowed all of the audiences play a role in this game. It was quite exiting because everyone do interact with each other via a game pad. Both of the two performances got a relative point of view: performance is about what the audience was actually experienced.
All of the audiences and performers dependent on cameras, monitors, microphones and speakers to communicate with people who walk on the street outside ICA. One camera and one TV are set on the street where the TV displays our stage and auditorium. “Gob Squad want to electrify the masses and take advantage of the capabilities of a large media production: cameras, live links, big screens, wireless transmitters and very long cables”. The goal of this revolution is to get a member of the outside world to join us. This is really a big challenge that Gob Squad tried to ask people to make change, but who beyond a certain theatrical context. Especially who do not believe the little change and do not want to have a change in UK.
By broadcasting to the outside world, we desire for a revolution right now. It is fact that few people stopped and tried to understand what was happened in the theatre, what informations we want to convey. Gob Squad shown up the specific aspect of our negative audience. Most of the audiences don not like to shift the position with the performer, instead of sitting and watching the show. But the task is finally successful. Gob Squad have break the audience’s conventional believe about theatre. Obviously we all experienced a fantastic night.
What’s more, Theatre is getting wise to the digital age, high tech holds the power to engage audiences to interact with performers within live performance. The performance reminded me another example: that is Rimini Protokoll’ Best Before, which is also one part of the Lift Festival. The Canadian based company created a virtual realm video game, allowed all of the audiences play a role in this game. It was quite exiting because everyone do interact with each other via a game pad. Both of the two performances got a relative point of view: performance is about what the audience was actually experienced.
29 June 2010
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