Come & Go

Having never performed an existing script before, the Colliders thought it was time to give it a go, and chose Samuel Beckett's short play Come & Go.

Come & Go was performed at the 070707 UpStage Festival and at the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance.

Belonging

Addressing power, ownership and modern slavery, Belonging premiered at the HTMlles festival in Montreal, on 17 October 2007, accessible to audiences at the festival and online. It was performed again on 7th of December 2007, 7PM GMT as part of the Intimacy seminar in Goldsmiths, London and online.

Familiar Features

Familiar Features was developed during our SCANZ residency, and was presented at Intimacy & Inyerface (Wellington) on 20 July 2006 and at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, October 7 2006, as part of the Blue Oyster Gallery performance art series.

The work was inspired by the slogan, Take only photos, leave only footprints, from 1970s New Zealand tourism brochures, and explores notions of place, identity and tourism, and the ecological footprint of human existence.

Trip the Light Fantastic!

Avatar Body Collision were invited to participate in SCANZ, a two-week new media workshop and residency in New Plymouth, New Zealand, 3-16 July 2006. This was to be the first ever real life meeting of the four globally dispersed Colliders - however things didn't go quite as smoothly as we planned! Read all about it on our blog of the journey: Trip the Light Fantastic! ...

DTN2

The first ever cyberformance using UpStage, a sequel to our 2003 show Dress The Nation, was brought to you live from Machinista Offline Festival , May 9, 2004.

Visit the DTN2 page for images and to read the complete performance log.

Lagging with the Lololols

Investigations into Distributed Practices of Goddess Worship in Extreme Internet Cultures.

Virtual Minds Congress, Bremen, Germany, 12 March 2004

Dissension Convention

Three of the Colliders colluded with Bea Gibson in the Furtherfield Visitors' Studio for the Dissension Convention, in conjunction with Postmasters Gallery, NYC, on Tuesday 31 August. The Dissension Convention was four days of live online audio-visual jamming as part of the artistic protests against the USA Republican party's national convention.

Dress The Nation

Avatar Body Collision joined the Lysistrata Project, an international theatrical protest against war. Four performances were given over a 12 hour period on March 3-4 2003, online, in the Palace online chat environment.

s w i m - an exercise in remote intimacy

A collage of immersive images, splashy flirtations, wet moments and deep encounters between fleshy cyber bodies that delves into the possibilities and problems of intimacy without physical proximity.

Premiered at Medi@terra (Athens, December 2002) and presented at ANET Festival (Belgrade, Dec 2002) Magdalena Australia (Brisbane, April 2003), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, October 2003), the Eclectic Tech Carnival (Belgrade, July 2004) and BATS Theatre (Wellington, 2005).

Screen Save Her

A comic book techno-noir, presented at the 12-12 Time-based Media Festival, Cardiff, Wales, 18 May 2002 and at "Roehampton at Riverside", Riverside Studios, London, 21 May 2002.

the[abc]experiment

A research project into the meeting points of cyberformance and theatre, and the event from which Avatar Body Collision was born. Presented at the 2002 New Zealand Fringe Festival, BATS Theatre, Wellington, 15-16 February 2002.