July 26, 2006
Remote: a multimedia performance by Kraft and Purver
Connection, Control and Safe Distance
Remote: a multimedia performance by Kraft and Purver :: When: Aug. 3-12, 2006 (Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8pm) :: Where: CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission St. (at 9th), San Francisco :: Reservations: (415) 435-7552 :: How Much: $12-15 weekend of 3rd, $15-20 weekend of 10th.
"The further you are, the closer I feel to you… please, stay away" – Remote :: In a time where traditional intelligence networks seem to have failed, and where "faith-based" decisions challenge scientific "objectivity", this new multimedia theatre project by award winners Kraft + Purver weaves live video manipulation with theater to blur the lines between reality and perception.
Both hilarious and revealing, Remote draws from factual research into bizarre experiments in psychic spying performed by the U.S. military and the CIA, and also from the impact of communications technology on the nature of relationships, and takes an unconventional look at our attempts to connect and control while still paradoxically maintaining a safe distance.
Through the re-enactment of military efforts to train psychic spies, and of a real-life long distance relationship conducted through the internet, Remote explores how distance can afford us both the grace of perspective and the capacity for violence. The performers interact live with onstage video effects that transform their physical gestures into 3D graphical landscapes, as they attempt to find their way through the maze of their own thoughts in order to find their targets.
Conceived and designed by Kraft + Purver, Remote is performed by Sara Kraft and Ed Purver, with Ernie Lafky and Rowena Richie. Sound and Music by Sheldon Smith.
"Transporting, shrewdly evocative, and often very funny, their creative process suggests two precocious, deeply mischievous children with advanced degrees and the keys to the laboratory" – San Francisco Bay Guardian
Posted by jo at July 26, 2006 06:55 PM
