Conceived and created by
The Builders Association and dbox
BAM Harvey Theater
Nov 29—Dec 3 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20, 30, 45, 55
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The world is at your fingertips. Literally. A few strokes on
the keyboard take you, virtually, anywhere you want to go, click
by click creating a cyber composite of yourself. Every bit of
data—credit card purchases, email messages, academic degrees,
medical records—none of it goes away, ever. You’re
there for the taking.
What if someone re-created himself out of all that detritus?
What if he, essentially, took part of you?
Information anxiety, indeed, brought to you by the New York-based
Builders Association (Alladeen, 2003 Next Wave) and
multi-disciplinary studio dbox. Under the direction of Marianne
Weems, whose unerring ability to tap into the zeitgeist gives
her work a breathtaking immediacy, Super Vision explores how
our identities seem to be increasingly dependent on, and constituted
by, the cloud of data that surrounds each of us.
The production comprises three chilling stories: the machinations
of a father who has co-opted his son’s digital identity;
a data addict coping with her grandmother’s advancing
senility; and a man who exposes more and more of his data in
order to travel freely. Science fiction? Just hand over your
credit card number and find out.
Directed by Marianne Weems
Conception by James Gibbs, Marianne Weems, Matthew Bannister,
Charles d'Autremont, Dan Dobson
Text by Constance De Jong
Additional text by company members
Prologue by Tanya Selvaratnam with Marianne Weems
Initial Story Development by Jed Weintrob and Andrew Osborne
Set and Costume Design by Stewart Laing
Lighting Design by Jennifer Tipton and Allen Hahn
Virtual Design by dbox
Video Design by Peter Flaherty
Sound Design and Original Music Composition by Dan Dobson
Lead Co-producer: Wexner Center for the Arts in association
with the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at
The Ohio State University. Co-producers: Walker Art Center;
Montclair State University: Office of Arts & Cultural Programming;
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis; Liverpool,
European Capital of Culture 2008; New Zealand International
Arts Festival; BAM Next Wave Festival. Additional residency
support provided by The Kitchen and Arts at St. Ann's.
Image by dbox