2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival Schedule

Thursday July 7 – 12 Noon SLT

Parade from Sugar Mountain

Odyssey Avatar Parade with Pyewacket Kazyanenko (Aus)

We're kicking off Odyssey Performance Art Festival with a parade. Led by Pyewacket Kazyanenko the event will start off on top of Sugar Mountain on Odyssey and parade down, through and around the sim.

All avatars are encouraged to bring friends & robots, think carnival, animal, wacky, invisible or what ever you want. During the event all are encouraged to rezz outrageous things, vehicles, oddly shaped prims, fruit and funny hats, to set off explosives, particles and sounds. Celebrate being an avatar and march together whether you be friends, enemies or unlikely lovers.

The parade will end at a small stage where all avatars are invited to perform. Be Big! Make Noise! The Odyssey Avatar Parade!

Thursday July 7th at 2 PM SLT

Thursday Bloody Thursday

Alan Sondheim (Alan Dojoji), Sandy Baldwin (USA)

A performance by Alan Sondheim with Sandy Baldwin

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Friday July 8 – 1 PM SLT

ScreenMe

SaveMe Oh (NL)

SaveMe Oh gives the word cinema a new dimension with the reprise of her ScreenMe performance. Originally made for SaveMe's return in Caerleon but rejected at the last moment, ScreenMe has been performed only once before, in May 2011, on the Amsterdam sim.

Saturday July 9th – 1 PM SLT

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse in concert

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (International)

The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse is a global collaboration of composers, artists and musicians that approaches the virtual reality platform Second Life as an instrument itself. The Orchestra conceives, designs and builds its own virtual instruments, making it possible for each individual performer in the Orchestra to trigger sounds independent from one another and to play together in real time. These instruments feature sound, visuals, and animations. AOM will perform a unique concert on Odyssey featuring the composition Xaana.

Saturday July 9th – VB16 - Gracie/Kris

Gracie Kendall/Kristine Shomaker (USA) and the Vaneesa Blaylock Company

a performance by Gracie Kendal

In VB15 on July 9th 2011, Gracie will offer 16 avatars, 16 variations of identity, 16 life possibilities, for the audience to consider in this performance where the body is presented directly before the audience, unmediated by the brush of the painter or the lens of the photographer.

Gracie Kendal, also known as Kristine Schomaker in real life, just completed her Thesis for the Masters Degree in Art with the execution of her "My Life as an Avatar" www.graciekendal.wordpress.com where she utilizes installation, text, photography, mixed media, video and performance to explore her real life through the lens of her second life avatar.

"I am projecting myself onto another form and confronting my own imperfections," Kendal says. "My work deals with the process of becoming self-aware while living in a media-saturated, technologically advancing society."

Sunday July 10th – 12 Noon SLT

Orientation

a performance by ArthOle (UK/USA)

ArthOle has reformed for the 2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival, and will host a remixed performance of ORIENTATION (last seen in 2009).

ORIENTATION is a multimedia promenade performance that relies on audience participation. The attendees arrive at the location and will be guided by interactions from the actors.

Due to the nature of the performance, numbers will be limited to ten people per date, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please reserve your place by contacting Arahan Claveau or Nebulosus Severine in-world.

Sunday July 10 – 1PM SLT

Untitled

Kakukkfu Yosuke

An interactive happening by Kakukkfu Yosuke. Using Yosuke's scripted prims become a shadow, play with fleshlights.

Tuesday July 12 – 1 PM SLT

Avatar Wrestling Federation Smacktacular – Round One

Dan Coyote Antonelli/DC Spenseley (USA)

with the Second Life Cheerleading Squad (International)

Come one, come all and compete in the first ever AVATAR WRESTLING FEDERATION SMACKTACULAR! Good guys, bad guys and all characters in between earn bragging rights at this "spectacle of excess" unparalleled in any life and not possible in real life!

Join avatars from communities from all over Second Life to come together for a festival of absurd creative competition and over-the-top artistic performance and entertainment.

AWF wrestlers will be accompanied by members of the Second Life Cheerleading Squad. Started in 2007 by Christi Charron, the SLCS has blossomed into the largest and most successful Cheerleading groups within Second Life.

Wednesday July 13 - Noon SLT - EXTRA PERFORMANCE!

Orientation

performance by ArthOle

ArthOle has reformed for the 2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival, and will host a remixed performance of ORIENTATION (last seen in 2009).

ORIENTATION is a multimedia promenade performance that relies on audience participation. The attendees arrive at the location and will be guided by interactions from the actors.

Due to the nature of the performance, numbers will be limited to ten people per date, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please reserve your place by contacting Arahan Claveau or Nebulosus Severine in-world.

Thursday July 14 - Noon SLT

Orientation

performance by ArthOle

ArthOle has reformed for the 2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival, and will host a remixed performance of ORIENTATION (last seen in 2009).

ORIENTATION is a multimedia promenade performance that relies on audience participation. The attendees arrive at the location and will be guided by interactions from the actors.

Due to the nature of the performance, numbers will be limited to ten people per date, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please reserve your place by contacting Arahan Claveau or Nebulosus Severine in-world.

Thursday July 14th – 1 PM SLT

Avatar Wrestling Federation Smacktacular – Round Two

Dan Coyote Antonelli/DC Spenseley (USA)

with the Second Life Cheerleading Squad (International)

Come one, come all and compete in the first ever AVATAR WRESTLING FEDERATION SMACKTACULAR! Good guys, bad guys and all characters in between earn bragging rights at this "spectacle of excess" unparalleled in any life and not possible in real life!

Join avatars from communities from all over Second Life to come together for a festival of absurd creative competition and over-the-top artistic performance and entertainment.

AWF wrestlers will be accompanied by members of the Second Life Cheerleading Squad. Started in 2007 by Christi Charron, the SLCS has blossomed into the largest and most successful Cheerleading groups within Second Life.

Friday July 15 – 12 Noon SLT

TBA

Sca Shilova

New performance by Sca Shilova

Friday July 15 – 1 PM SLT

The Extraordinary Adventures of Kikas & Marmaduke

Marmaduke Arado and Kikas Babenco

Kikas Babenco and Marmaduke Arado, call themselves The Wearers and have developed a show called "The Extraordinary Adventures of Kikas & Marmaduke" - a succession of scenes from a hypothetical 3D cartoon telling the wacky trials and tribulations of their avatars in Second Life.

"The Extraordinary Adventures of Kikas & Marmaduke" aims to be fun while it explores the possibilities of Second Life itself as a creative medium.

Saturday July 16 - 1 AM SLT

SENSES PLACES

Mixed Reality Participatory Performance Environment

Todd Cochrane and Isabel Valverde

Physical site: Fridge Gallery, C Bloc, Wellington Institute of Technology,

23-27 Kensington Av., Petone

This mixed reality participatory performance will involve Movement/Dance and Sound/Music Improvisation, amongst physical bodies, and physical bodies and avatars. Keyboard-free alternative modes of embodied interfacing will be enabled by video livestream in SL of the physical participants at Betone, NZ, and, possibly, Tokyo, Japan, Webcam and Wiimote interfacing (software objects to be shared) for physical and remote participants.

Senses Places continues the ongoing experimental dance-technology collaborative research work from Real Virtual Games through Weathering In, towards critically expanding kinesthetic/synesthetic perceptions and communication, engaging physical and physical-virtual Contact and Somatic Movement based Improvisation, Sound, and body-environment climate interactions.

We focus on challenging choreographic/designed/devised relationships amongst participants, with/through mediated doubles (video image and/or avatar), and with aspects of the responsive environment, which would benefit, enrich, bringing agency to embodied subjects within a post-human corporeal condition.

Saturday July 16 - 1 PM SLT

Avatar Wrestling Federation Smacktacular – Championship Rounds

Dan Coyote Antonelli/DC Spenseley (USA)

with the Second Life Cheerleading Squad (International)

Come one, come all and compete in the first ever AVATAR WRESTLING FEDERATION SMACKTACULAR! Good guys, bad guys and all characters in between earn bragging rights at this "spectacle of excess" unparalleled in any life and not possible in real life!

Join avatars from communities from all over Second Life to come together for a festival of absurd creative competition and over-the-top artistic performance and entertainment. At this event the winner takes it all.

Featuring routines by the Second Life Cheerleading Squad. Started in 2007 by Christi Charron, the SLCS has blossomed into the largest and most successful Cheerleading groups within Second Life.

Saturday July 16 – 4:30 PM SLT/9 PM NST

Night Gardening

Liz Solo/Fau Ferdinand (NFLD, UK)

physical site: Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland

A hybrid reality performance – avatars and humans in real space terraform and beautify the front of the Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Sunday July 17 – 1 PM SLT

Interdimensional Call

Kai Steamer

Interdimensional Call

The energy of the universe flows through everything, allows us to have sensory experiences, communicate with each other and is not limited to only the virtual world. It is also present in other dimensions of our reality, like that unknown world: the so-called 'physical world.'

A ritual of initiation and purification is needed; an encounter with the operator that every avatar has. Whether you believe in them or not, they rule our destiny.

A communication channel will be opened with one of them. Are there any messages for us out there?

Sunday July 17 - 2 PM SLT

MASS.LIVE.NU (The Future of Social Mass Media)

Ze Moo

MASS.LIVE.NU performance is a modest comment on some of today's global issues and an attempt to predict a future where cyber migration becomes an issue when geopolitical borders prevent migration of people seeking happiness. "Lag-Hell on Earth".