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UpStage is delighted to announce that its new project
Mobilise/Demobilise has been selected to receive EU funding in the
Creative Europe programme. The project will be realised in
collaboration with Teater Interakt (Sweden), Schaumbad Freies
Atelierhaus (Austria) and the Centre for the Cultivation of
Technology (Germany). <br>
Mobilise/Demobilise comprises a series of networked performances and
the development of an updated “mobilised” platform for live online
performances. Thematically, the project addresses human mobility
within the contemporary political and environmental context, and the
impact of mobile technologies on human life and the environment. <br>
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Mobilise/Demobilise is an artistic and discursive response to a
world of increasing conflict, crisis and emergency. The Covid19
pandemic makes this project timely and urgent: communication,
connection and culture rapidly evolving as lockdowns and travel
restrictions force us to live more and more of our lives online.
Mobilise/Demobilise brings a critical and artistic perspective to
this current crisis.<br>
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Artistic partners UpStage, Teater Interakt and Schaumbad Freies
Atelierhaus will collaboratively investigate the theme and develop a
series of interactive online performances, to be presented in
April-May 2021. Alongside the creative process, the UpStage platform
will be “mobilised” – re-engineered to function on mobile devices
such as smartphones and tablets – and brought up-to-date with
current internet technologies. The project is managed in partnership
with the Center for the Cultivation of Technology.<br>
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For more information, please visit <a
href="http://www.upstage.org.nz/" moz-do-not-send="true">www.upstage.org.nz</a><br>
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<b>About the Partners: <br>
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UpStage is an online platform for cyberformance (networked
performance) and an international community of artists. The platform
was first developed in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2003 and since then
has hosted many online festivals, performances and events. <a
href="http://www.upstage.org.nz/" moz-do-not-send="true">www.upstage.org.nz</a><br>
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Teater Interakt is a documentary theatre company based in Malmö,
Sweden, that works intensively with refugees, migrants and people in
the asylum process. <a href="http://www.teaterinterakt.se/"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.teaterinterakt.se</a><br>
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Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus is a multi-disciplinary artists’
collective in Graz, Austria that organises festivals, events and
intercultural exchanges. <a href="http://www.schaumbad.mur.at/"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.schaumbad.mur.at</a><br>
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The Center for the Cultivation of Technology acts as a host
organisation for international free software projects, providing
organisational infrastructure. <a
href="http://www.techcultivation.org/" moz-do-not-send="true">www.techcultivation.org</a><br>
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<p>helen varley jamieson<br>
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<p> <a href="mailto:helen@creative-catalyst.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">helen@creative-catalyst.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.creative-catalyst.com"
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