Power 2
August 30th, 2008, Starts 9pm

Featuring Contributions by:
Kristina Donello
Nick Lesley
Avarus

Curated by Lisa Baldini

Power 2
Issue Project Room is pleased to present the premiere of Power 2 on August,
30th, 2008. Power 2 is the second in a series of curatorial experiments that examines the phases of web media through collaborative projects. For its second incarnation, choreographer Kristina Donello, media artist Nick Lesley and members of Finnish sound collective super group Avarus fuse dance, motion capture video, and sound to create a Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Art) that addresses the era of social media.

The approach remains true to the Richard Wagner definition of a Gesamtkunstwerk:

Whereas the public, that representation of daily life, forgets the confines of the auditorium, and lives and breathes now only in the artwork which seems to it as Life itself, and on the stage which seems the wide expanse of the whole World.

As such, the work’s goal is intended to create a multimedia environment that
commands/consumes the viewer’s attention.

In the age of social media, the viewer is accustomed to simultaneously consuming information, content, media and interpersonal interactions. The threshold for attention spans continues to decrease, while saturation with the visual world increases. Power 2 combats this phenomenon by making the viewer the 4th wall of the piece. An exercise in control, it blurs the lines between performer, art and audience by constantly moving the viewer between passive observer, participant and static object.

Power 2 is a one night only event, beginning at 9pm. There is a ten dollar suggested donation for entry. All guests are asked to wear white to participate.