Objects for the Emancipated Consumer
October 25, 2001
Installation, Multi Media Presentation, Performance Art
About the Program
Dynamo presented LIMINAL's original production, Objects for the Emancipated Consumer, a multimedia spy drama and interactive performance and installation. Six characters searched for answers to an ambiguous series of past, present, and future crimes in a fictitious international airport city. The show was a free-range immersive room environment, with no audience seating, decked out to evoke an airport. At a central duty free shop station, an audience member could select an 'object' (a free-standing picture of an actor, in a plastic case with a barcode) anytime during the show. When the attendant scanned the chosen object, a media interlude would be triggered, halting the progress of the play to give some secret or interior aspect of the selected character. The lighting would crossfade and become intimate, the security monitors would switch on, and the airport paging audio would call that actor out to answer the paging phone and perform their interlude solo piece. After the interludes or 'liminal moments', the media would switch back and the play would continue on from where it stopped, until the next object was scanned.Artist
LIMINALIdentifier
2001.1025 OBJPart of the series
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001Collection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
Dynamo Gallery142 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 1G8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations
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