Performance by Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand in collaboration Chris Head<br><div class="gmail_quote"><p><a href="http://www.tft.ucla.edu/calendar/performance/transreal-bodies/" target="_blank">
UCLA Freud Playhouse</a><br>
November 3rd, 4pm<br>
Co-sponsored by <a href="http://www.performancestudies.ucla.edu/transreal.html" target="_blank">The Center for Performance Studies</a>, the <span>UCLA</span> Department of Theater and <a href="http://crca.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank">CRCA<br>
</a>Panel after the performance at 5pm with Sandy Stone, Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez</p><p><br></p><p>Go here in Second Life to see Becoming Transreal!
</p><p><a href="http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/232/31/601" target="_blank">http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Odyssey/232/31/601</a><br></p>
In "Real life" come see the full mixed reality event with 3D
stereoscopic projection and motion capture at the UCLA Freud Playhouse.
<a href="http://www.tft.ucla.edu/facilities/freud-playhouse/" target="_blank">Directions here</a><br><br>
<p>What if you could become anything? What happens after species change surgery becomes a reality? <i>becoming transreal</i>
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. <i>becoming transreal</i> 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.</p>
<p>Inspired in part by <a href="http://pitmm.net/" target="_blank"><i>Tales from the Matter Market</i></a> and a continuation of <a href="http://secondloop.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><i>Becoming Dragon</i></a>,
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. In <i>becoming transreal,</i> Cárdenas and Mehrmand will
use devices sold both for quasi-medical purposes and for sexual
pleasure, part of the economies of medicalized sexuality, the grey area
of “elective” medical products and medical play sex toys, to make
visible the pain of transition.</p>
<p>Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, the School of Theater,
Film, and Television, LGBT Studies, the Center for the Study of Women
and The Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance.
Additional support provided by San Diego State University’s Second Life
Initiative, <a href="http://sdsu-aztlan.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">Aztlan Island</a>.</p>
<p>This event is free and open to the general public.</p>
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<p></p>thanks, <br><br> micha<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>micha cárdenas<br><br>Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, <a href="http://is.gd/daO00" target="_blank">http://is.gd/daO00</a><br>Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego<br>
Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego<br>Artist/Researcher, UCSD School of Medicine<br>Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, <a href="http://bang.calit2.net" target="_blank">http://bang.calit2.net</a><br>
<br>blog: <a href="http://transreal.org" target="_blank">http://transreal.org</a><br><br>gpg: <a href="http://is.gd/ebWx9" target="_blank">http://is.gd/ebWx9</a><br><br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>micha cárdenas<br><br>Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, <a href="http://is.gd/daO00" target="_blank">http://is.gd/daO00</a><br>Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego<br>
Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego<br>Artist/Researcher, UCSD School of Medicine<br>Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, <a href="http://bang.calit2.net" target="_blank">http://bang.calit2.net</a><br>
<br>blog: <a href="http://transreal.org" target="_blank">http://transreal.org</a><br><br>gpg: <a href="http://is.gd/ebWx9" target="_blank">http://is.gd/ebWx9</a><br><br>