Weathering Strange Realities
‘Hyper-reality is the technological mediation of experience, where what passes for reality is a network of images and signs without an external referent’. - Jean Baudrillard
Patterns emerge when we are boxed inside a frame, an algorithm, house, LGA, and epoch. Seems like the only way is through… Data rising and falling, a kind of reality, a known world, a redistribution of our virtual selves in the matrix. Our bodies becoming particles pushed into the atmosphere and entangled in a liaison with rare minerals, mass consumer markets, melting permafrosts and wayward intergalactic surveillance agents. Our precious personal identities, funnelled through privately owned cables and platforms. The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.
Concept & Direction by: Victoria Hunt
Editing & Sound by: James Brown
Additional Sound by: Matthew McDonald-Kearns
Stage Managers: Ellie Wedgwood, Matthew McDonald-Kearns
Filming & Editing by: 2nd Year Bachelor of Performance and Theatre Students, University of Wollongong 2020
Cast: Adam Alkuheli, Kris Cetinic, Amy Clapham-Turnbull, Chloe Begbie, Clementine De La Hunty, Andrew Lewis, Mia Gibson, Sam MacKinnon, Thomas Roberts, Angel Sunil, Hannah Schibeci, Bill Wilson, Liam Wagstaffe
Date: Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th October, 2021
Time: 7.00pm
Live Online: Zoom link will be provided via email 1 day prior to the event
For more information, please see the TAEM Performance website