Performance by Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand UCLA Freud Playhouse<http://www.tft.ucla.edu/calendar/performance/transreal-bodies/> November 3rd, 4pm Co-sponsored by The Center for Performance Studies<http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/>and the UCLA Department of Theater
What if you could become anything? What happens after species change surgery becomes a reality? *Becoming Transreal* speculates on a future in which the promises of bionanotechnology have become realized, and yet as capitalism has continued to fail, both the interiors of our bodies and the virtual world have become totally commodified. you can become anything, but to finance your whims of identity transformation, the same nanohormones that transform your body are also producing drugs for others. *Becoming Transreal * looks at transgender experience through a lens of slipstream science fiction poetry. The performance uses motion capture to interface with Second Life avatars and 3D stereoscopic imagery to immerse the audience in this transreal world. Inspired in part by *Tales from the Matter Market* <http://pitmm.net/> and a continuation of *Becoming Dragon* <http://secondloop.wordpress.com/>, this performance asks what our lives are like when we have become both the factory and the product, asks how we can resist capitalism when neoliberalism’s collapse has wound itself into the perfection of a single atom, into the fabric of beauty and into our most intimate emotions. Photo at: http://bang.calit2.net/tts/2010/09/07/becoming-transreal-a-mixed-reality-biodigital-performance/ -- micha cárdenas Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, http://is.gd/daO00 Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego Artist/Researcher, UCSD Medical Education Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org gpg: http://is.gd/ebWx9
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