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We're now two-thirds of the way through the 11:11:11 UpStage
Festival and all is going well! Once again the the work is diverse,
exciting and inspiring - created by innovative artists from a
variety of disciplines and of all ages; and the audience response is
enthusiastic. <br>
<br>
The third and final block of performances begins very soon, at 7pm
European time, which is 7am on Saturday in New Zealand. The schedule
of performances, on the front page of the <a
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/">UpStage web site</a>, includes
time converter links so that you can find your local time.<br>
<br>
The performances in the final block are:<br>
<ul>
<li><i><a title="ed king"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2652#ek">Edward
King</a></i>: Times Square on Christmas Eve. Did Edward King
kill someone? Was the man his father? Do the Rockettes know the
secret? Tune in for the avatar can-can and join in the
Hallucinated Hallelujah Chorus, as Edward King asks: “Who am I?”
By Marlena Corcoran (Munich/Venice) with Marischka Klinkhamer
(Amsterdam), Vicki Smith (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and Ben Unterman
(Vancouver).</li>
<li><i><a
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2652#is_this_on">Is
This On?</a></i>: sympathising with the computer, unexpected
love and jealousy between open source and proprietary software
form the perfect setting for a geek tragedy. By Inge Hoonte
& Birgit Bachler (the Netherlands) and students of the
Networked Media department at the Piet Zwart Institute in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.</li>
<li><i><a title="magfalda"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2652#mag">Magfalda
meets the world in pieces</a></i>: an innocent and
unpretentious journey to the (re)discovery of the world in
pieces that surrounds us. By Gabriella Sacco (Amsterdam,
Netherlands), Valentina Tibaldi (Torino, Italy).</li>
<li><i><a title="property theft"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2652#pt">Property
& Theft</a></i>: an Automated Confessional Service - a
cross between a Catholic confession and an automated telephone
payment service - this mechanical, comodified and malfunctioning
Confessional Service elicits absurd public confessions of
wrongdoing from participants, and then suggests appropriate
penance for the participant to enact there and then. By Olivia
Furber, Harry Giles, et al (Edinburgh, Scotland).</li>
<li><i><a title="Where are the clouds?"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2652#clouds">Where
are the clouds?</a></i>: a dynamic, real-time exploration of
the performance of remixed texts in online digital media. By
Katarina DJ. Urosevic (Serbia), Francesco Buonaiuto (Italy) and
The Levi@hans.<br>
</li>
<li><i><a title="flat earth"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2652#fe">Flat
Earth</a></i>: a poetic journey on the source of ideas, and
how we build ideas from images that come in our mind; playing
with perception, the focus, the distraction of it, time, size
and distance, the imagination, and the memory of things and
scenes. By Petyr Veenstra and Floris Sirag (the Netherlands).<br>
</li>
<li><i><a title="wake research project"
href="http://upstage.org.nz/blog/?page_id=2652#wake">String
Games</a></i>: using the ancient practice of Whai (String
Games) a navigational marker will be revealed. Audiences are
encouraged to bring a 2 metre length of cord knotted into a
single loop. By Vicki Smith and Hannah, Ellen and Joanne from
Paparoa Range School (Aotearoa/NZ). <br>
</li>
</ul>
We hope you can join us for some of these great shows, and stick
around for the party afterwards!<br>
<br>
Thanks to Creative New Zealand, CityLink and Auckland University of
Technology for their support of UpStage and the festival.<br>
<br>
Helen Varley Jamieson & Vicki Smith<br>
UpStage Festival Architects<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.upstage.org.nz">http://www.upstage.org.nz</a>
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