The Last Performance

Soumis par Simon Brousseau le lun, 02/08/2010 - 14:46

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The Last Performance est une oeuvre qui explore les possibilités de visualisation du texte à l'écran. Sur celui-ci, les mots sont dotés d'une souplesse qui apparente leurs mouvements à la danse. L'auteur affirme également s'être inspiré de l'architecture dans le choix des figures que les mots forment au fil de leurs mouvements. Le texte en mouvement demeure difficilement lisible, invitant plutôt l'internaute à observer l'aspect purement visuel du texte. D'autres sections de l'oeuvre permettent à l'internaute de lire les textes de façon statique. Il est à noter que l'artiste fait également des performances à partir de cette oeuvre.

Citation(s)

up the threads and in
this way to escape the
question while answering it, as
the escape is the answer;
to escape the classic texts
of theater while opening them;

Discours (notes)

«The Last Performance is a constraint-based collaborative writing, archiving and text-visualization project responding to the theme of lastness in relation to architectural forms, acts of building, a final performance, and the interruption (that becomes the promise) of community.

This project is conceived in response to the work of the Chicago-based performance collective, Goat Island, and their decision, after 20 years of practice, to create a last performance. Based upon the architecture of a Byzantine dome, The Last Performance will evolve over two years, alongside the creation and performance of the company's final work, The Lastmaker. The writing project and the performance are evolving in parallel and share generative constraints. Upon completion of the final performance tour and this writing project, the company will end, will complete the process of ending, in order, as they have put it,"to make room for the unknown that will follow."

Writers and artists are invited to submit texts and media files in response to creative constraints and thus participate in the process of building a last performance. Contributors need not be familiar with the work of the company to respond. Critics and audience members who attend a work-in-progress or performance of The Lastmaker are invited to respond specifically to the work or to the overall historical project of Goat Island. A constraint-based thread, concerning lasts made..., is now open for this purpose and will eventually also extend to include responses to the last performance project as a work in itself.

Source texts and media submitted to The Last Performance will be treated as raw material for programmatic and performative visualization, re-arrangement, and re-composition according to mechanisms and algorithms that are being developed alongside the writing.»

http://thelastperformance.org/project_info_public.php

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The Last Performance

Morrissey, Judd