DiGiTAL
DRAMATURGY LAB
PROjectS: Practice Based Research
Antje Budde, Considerations of numbers
VIDEO Richard Windeyer, Data analysis of temporal dramaturgy
May 25 and My 26, 2018
Between Life and Death 生死界 – ScienceFair
An investigative and relentless research extravaganza performing data, software, patterns, bodies, numbers, spaces, waves, artificial and/or creative intelligence inspired by Gao Xingjian’s Zen play “Between Life and Death” (Au Bord de la Vie 生死界)
WHEN
May 25-26, 2018
6-9pm
WHERE
Luella Massey Studio Theatre
4 Glen Morris Street, Toronto
Supported by the Programming Committee of the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. In collaboration with the Toronto Laboratory Theatre’s and Nine Arts Lab’s “Body Logic” workshop.
Special thanks to Tamara Trojanowska, Julie Philips, Paul Stoesser and student theatre technicians Tiffany Yaw and Chris Sutherland.
Collaborators:
Nazli Akhtari, Art Babayants Արտ Բաբայանց, Antje Budde 安琪。布徳, Berna Celikkaya, Melissa Fearon, Emma Ge 葛舸, Amina Holloway, Oleg Kisselev Олег Киселев, Myrto Koumarianos, Jianing Lu 卢嘉宁, Riaz Mahmoud, Montgomery Martin, Sonia Norris, Frosina Pejcinovska, Ross Slaughter, Tijana Spasich, Sanja Vodovnik, Richard Windeyer, Congwen Xue 薛淙文, Dmitry Zhukovsky.
Tech support
Dr. Paul Stoesser (Technical Director)
Chris Sutherland
Tiffany Yaw
Lisa Matsumoto
Desiree Goldwater
Evening program HERE
Project titles HERE
Project descriptions HERE
Feb. 2018 FOOT Festival of Original Theatre
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
“At the core: Firing synapses as a nerve string quartet
Brain conditioning and realtime collaborative music composition”
A project by the Digital Dramaturgy Lab
Presented by Amina Holloway, Sanja Vodovnik, Montgomery Martin and Antje Budde February 2018
A contribution to the 2018, 26th edition of FOOT - Festival of Original Theatre Annual Graduate Conference on the theme of "Supporting Bodies/ Changing Minds"at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto.
Project development by Antje Budde, Amina Holloway, Montgomery Martin, Berna Celikkaya, Sanja Vodovnik, Richard Windeyer, Amina Holloway, and friends
More information HERE
Feb. 2017 FOOT Festival of Original Theatre
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Archiving Silence - A political experience of collection
A project proposal by the Digital Dramaturgy Lab
Dec.22, 2016
Performed February 2017
A contribution to the 2017, 25th edition of FOOT - Festival of Original Theatre Annual Graduate Conference at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto (((Sounding the Inner Ear in Performance)))
Concept by Antje Budde with Nazli Akhtari, Berna Celikkaya, Ziying Gao, Monty Martin, Sanja Vodovnik, Richard Windeyer, Amina Holloway, Riaz Mahmood, and friends
More information HERE
Feb.4-7, 2016
Between Life and Death. 生死界。By Gao Xingjian 高行建
An interactive, participatory staged/faked reading experiment by the Digital Dramaturgy Lab (DDL) FOOT Festival 2016 "Staging Realities", annual graduate conference Link
More info p.15 HERE
Jan.24, 2016
Anne Mirvish. Gala Auction in Support of the Anne Mirvish Performing Arts Scholarships. University College. – Projection Design.
More info HERE
Slowness is one of the biggest provocations possible today. We live in times of rapid acceleration. Patience. Anxiety. Fear. Fascination. Endurance.
Brecht, writing on taking the time to think about the relationship between artists' naïve assumptions of independence and their dependence on a socio-cultural apparatus within which they work, comes to the conclusion: Thinking that they are in possession of an apparatus, which in reality owns them, they defend an apparatus over which they no longer have any control. (Brecht GW 17, pp.1005f.)
The "Blue Brain Project" is currently trying to create a synthetic, computer-based human brain.
More HERE
Stare. Print. Blue. - Voyeuring the apparatus
Performance-installation
Digifest
Date: May 7-9 2015
Venue: Corus Key Toronto
Main Collaborators:
Antje Budde, Nazli Ahktari, Montgomery Martin, Michael Reinhart, William J Mackwood, Karyn McCallum, Don Sinclair, and Richard Windeyer
Jing@Ju is an intermedial experiment exploring the use of Karaoke-inspired cross-cultural techniques of digital nomadic cultures in the transmission of Jingju 京剧 (Beijing Opera) performance. The project was presented as a performance-lecture using interactive technologies to get a digitally embodied taste of the queer Beijing Opera performance style - for everyone, regardless of gender, age, experience.
Jing@Ju Karaoke: Interactive queering of Beijing Opera
An Interactive Performance-Lecture
Structures of Digital Feeling, University of Buffalo (SUNY)
Date: March 27, 2015
Venue: Hallwalls Gallery
More info HERE
The performance-lecture is centred around Mei Lanfang's sword dance in the play 霸王别姬 "The Hegemon-King Bids his Queen Farewell" (aka Farewell my Concubine). Mei Lanfang 梅兰芳 was an internationally renowned Beijing Opera performer who specialized in dan (female) roles. This performance was presented and deconstructed into its various audio and visual elements to allow for a fun and amateurish foray into the richly detailed world of Beijing Opera.
At its core, the project explores two major questions; can we use current interactive technology “Karaoke‐style”, like the Xbox kinect cameras, projection, interactive audio programming/projection and embodied praxis in order to learn – as the Jingju amateurs that we are – to put ourselves into the (problematic) shoes, i.e. lotus feet etc., of a Hua Dan performer modeled after movements and gestures performed by Mei Lanfang? And, in doing so, what can we learn about both gender constructions across cultures and digital technology in live performance as both, potentially oppressive or liberating media?
Collaboratively created by:
Antje Budde, Xin Fan, Monty Martin, Michael Reinhart, Sebastian Samur, Don Sinclair, Richard Windeyer, and Mengmei Rose Zhou
Jing@Ju Karaoke: Interactive queering of Beijing Opera
An Interactive Performance-Lecture
FOOT 2015; Queer(ing) Performance Onstage and in Everyday Life
Date: February 7, 2015
Venue: University of Toronto
Jing@Ju is an intermedial experiment exploring the use of Karaoke-inspired cross-cultural techniques of digital nomadic cultures in the transmission of Jingju 京剧 (Beijing Opera) performance. The project was presented as a performance-lecture using interactive technologies to get a digitally embodied taste of the queer Beijing Opera performance style - for everyone, regardless of gender, age, experience.
Project proposal HERE
Stare. Print. Blue. - Voyeuring the apparatus
Performance-installation (Survival - International Performance Festival)
Date: September 3, 2014, 7 - 11pm
Venue: SOMA Gallery, Berlin
Slowness is one of the biggest provocations possible today. We live in times of rapid acceleration. In physics, acceleration is the rate at which the velocity of an object/body changes over time. But acceleration is also present in the rapid capitalist production that is heating up the scales of desire and consumerism while destroying the resources of our planet. Everything needs to happen in an instant and it needs to be translated into results, products, and real-time ranking. Data streams are racing through our bodies and through the machines/apparatuses/computers that we use and mostly don't understand.
More HERE .
Supported by:
German/Europe Study and Research Fund of the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca
Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto http://dramacentre.utoronto.ca
Digital Media Program, York University, Toronto http://digital-media.finearts.yorku.ca
Dr. Maike Budde, Hamburg
Collaborators:
Nazli Akhtari, Antje Budde, Myrto Koumarianos, William J. Mackwood, Karyn McCallum, Michael Reinhart, Sophie Roginsky,
Don Sinclair,
More info about the Survival festival here
Urban projections onto a window reaching beyond into the courtyard of the adjacent building and projecting onto the building front as well.
Date: Feb.7, 2014
From my (global) village I see as much—Walking inside a poem
Multi-media explorative performance installation inspired by Pessoa in Toronto
Length: 3 hours with changing groups of poetic space explorers
Venue: Rehearsal hall, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto, 214 College St.
FOOT 2014 “Breaking the body’s boundaries”, explores bodies in/as performance both as subject and object of critical and creative discourses and seems to be an ideal platform for such a process-based, open-ended experiment that brings people closer together and transforms all of them into urban poets.
A project co-created and co-performed by:
Antje Budde, Montgomery Martin, Laine Newman, Richard Windeyer
Film footage taken from Nicholas Brotman’s short film “Da Minha Aideia – From My Village” ( 3 SeeSunS Production, 2013) based on the poem by Alberto Caeiro (Pessoa), shot in Toronto
Nicholas Brotman and Jacob Antoni also contributed their voices to the piece.
Idea: Antje Budde
Project description HERE
Photo and text documentation HERE
Stare. Print. Blue. - Voyeuring the apparatus
Oct. 5, 2013 (Nuit Blanche Toronto)
Venue: Videofag
Performance installation project playing with slowness, wo(man)-machine and the desire to look behind the surface and to leave prints.
For more info go to:
Stare.Print.Blue.Project description .
New!
A recent interview with Rebecca Biason and some of the project's student-collaborators at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies.
Artaud's Cage
October 26, 2012
Glen Morris Studio Theatre, University of Toronto
"Artaud's Cage" was a 20 min. experimental performative conference presentation that investigated:
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- the relationship between Antonin Artaud's and John Cage's concepts and practices of intermedia performance focussing on mediatized and embodied philosophies/practices/politics of SCREAM and SILENCE embedded in violent histories.
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- dramaturgically informed possibilities/limitations/challenges of motion tracking technology in live performance - power relations
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- alternative and nomadic modes of collaboration and creation across disciplines, skill sets, cultural backgrounds and fragmented identities - testing togetherness
The performance was presented as part of the international The Future of John Cage: Credo conference at the University of Toronto.
Creators:
Antje Budde, Art Babayants, Aidan Dahlin Nolan, Douglas Hamilton, Myrto Koumarianos, Kat Letwin, Montgomery Martin, Tara Ostiguy, Michael Reinhart, Don Sinclair
Idea: Antje Budde