Come out and see one of the outcomes of our research group! After 10 weeks of talking to collectives from San Diego and Tijuana about collective practice, online public space and social engagement, we would like to share with you a performance at the intersection of the borderlands of Tijuana and San Diego and the virtual environment of Second Life.
This performance engages with the following questions: - What are the borders of online public space? how do they relate to the borders of our "first life"? - What are the relationships between borders and prisons? How are these separate but related modern features a part of the infrastructure that separates the global north from the global south? - How do borders produce gender and how are those dynamics affected by the seeming gender freedom online public space inhabited by avatars? How is gender deviance perceived and discussed in online spaces, in prisons, in borders? - Is synchronized dancing as fun in second life as it is in first life? Where: Lui Velazequez Calle José Maria Larroque #273. 2do Piso, Int. 6, Colonia Federal. Tijuana, Baja California. Mexico, C.P. 22 300 When: Wednesday, June 11th, 7pm ...or join us for the sneak preview live performance in the main auditorium at Atkinson Hall at UCSD, Wednesday, June 4th, at 7pm. Directions at http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net and also in Second Life, the SLURL will be posted at http://sharingissexy.org/wiki/CollectivePracticeClass Supported by UCIRA, CRCA, UCSD Visual Arts Department The Collective Art Practice Research Group is Jade Lantana, Matthew Riederer, Adelina Tancioco and Angelica Tolentino, facilitated by Micha Cárdenas. -- gpg: 0x5B77079C // encrypted email preferred gaim/skype: djlotu5 // off the record messaging preferred ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre