0100101110101101.ORG reenacting Chris Burden's "Shoot"
I am heading back to Chicago for Thanksgiving vacation today, which is a bit early, to catch up with friends and professors and have some work printed at the Service Bureau. Since I am heading out so soon I decided to catch one last performance for Performa 07. I went to Artists Space and saw Ava and Fracno Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG perform their Synthetic Performances. According to them the performances are "a series of reenactments of historical performances inside synthetic worlds such as Second Life. All the actions are performed by Eva and Franco Mattes through their avatars, which were constructed from their bodies and faces. People can attend and interact with the live performances connecting to the video-game from all over the world. The series started in January 2007." The first performance was of Gilbert & George's "Singing Sculptures", which you can watch at SAIC's Video Data Bank. The best part of the reenactments was when an avatar dressed in a superman shirt, white leggings, and a deer angel hovering over his head pushed Eva off of the table in which they were standing on. All and all I had a really great time. About 150 people showed up and I had a chance to hang out with my friend Kevin Stanton who was my neighbor in Chicago and after graduating from SAIC in the spring of 07 he moved to New York. Well, I'm about to board my plane so I'll check back in from Chicago.