OPAF on Youtube

Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance has started up a new Youtube Channel to share work and documentation from Odyssey exhibits. Our first pieces are now online - ten machinimas documenting the performances that took place during the 2010 Odyssey Performance Art Festival.

Please visit and subscribe to the Odyssey Simulator Youtube Channel and view videos of work by Patrick Lichty/Man Michinaga, Selavy Oh, Kris Shomaker/Gracie Kendal, Alan Sondheim/Alan Dojoji, Ze Moo, Azdel Slade/Micha Cardena and echolalia Azalee/Elle Mehrmand, Liz Solo/lizsolo Mathilde and Yael Gilks/Fau Ferdinand, DanCoyote Antonelli/DC Spensely, Rose Borchovski and Garrett Lynch.

A huge thank you to all the amazing artists and audiences who came out to make this first festival such a success!

Here is footage from Selavy Oh's "A Space to Chat". Visit our Youtube Channel for more.

Odyssey Performance Art Festival

2010 Odyssey Performance Art Festival

July 31st to August 14th, 2010

Schedule

Saturday July 31, 1:30 PM SLT

Opening Event:

Hiding

Rose Borchovski Opening

The Festival begins with the opening of a new installation Hiding by Rose Borchovski - an installment of the Susa Bubble story - on the south east corner of Odyssey. The Artist will be in attendance.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/210/27/21

Sunday August 1 at 4 PM SLT

Virus. Circus. Breath.

Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade and Elle Mehrmand / Echolalia Azalee
virus.circus is an episodic series of performances using wearable electronics, soft sensors and live audio to bridge virtual and physical spaces. The performances explore possible queer futures of latex sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria.
For your protection and the protection of others, you may be asked to wear a surgical mask.

see: http://www.transreal.org

Virus. Circus. Breath. will take place simultaneously on Odyssey and live at Parker Jones, Chinatown, Los Angeles.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/182/97/403

Wednesday August 4th at 1:30 PM SLT

I'm Garrett Lynch (IRL)

A performance by Garrett Lynch

The performance continues ideas of the artist, identity and being from the works "Between Saying and Doing" and "On Exactitude of Similitude". The artist, wearing his now usual sandwich board, generates two hundred visually identical sandwich boards for participants to wear while all but taking control of the chat window to focus discussion on topics including identity, location, representation, original and copy, ‘reality’ and fiction.

see:

http://www.asquare.org/works/im-garrett-lynch-irl

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/177/77/28

Friday August 6 - 4:30 PM SLT

Night Gardening

lizsolo Mathilde/Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks

Performance by lizsolo Mathilde and Fau Ferdinand taking place in lizsolo's virtual garden and simultaneously in her east coast backyard.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/13/225/21

Saturday August 7th - 3 PM SLT

Piano Drop

Man Michinaga/Patrick Lichty

“The Hansen-Ono Piano Method”, is an extension of Al Hansen’s historic FLUXUS work “Yoko Ono Piano Drop”, in which Al Hansen dropped a piano off of a building as an action for his colleague, Yoko Ono. In this action, Lichty's avatar (Man Michinaga) sits at the piano, while rains of pianos, anvils, sheep, and other whatnot rain down with cacaphanous results.

Sunday August 8 at 12 Noon SLT

My Life as an Avatar - The Gracie Kendal Project

Kris Schomaker/Gracie Kendal

The artist Kris Schomaker/Gracie Kendal discusses her work with "My Life as an Avatar" - a mixed-reality project/collaboration between Kris Schomaker and Gracie Kendal. See: http://graciekendal.wordpress.com/

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/84/210/106

Images from the My Life as an Avatar project: "Finding Grace - 6 portraits in the pursuit of balance"

Monday August 9th at 1 PM SLT

DanCoyote Antonelli's

"Leap of Doom!"

What could possibly be better than jumping bikes through rings of fire?

All are welcome, bring your stunts!

See http://www.spensley.com/dc/

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/177/77/28

Tuesday August 10th - 12 NOON SLT
A Space to Chat

by Selavy Oh
Brand new work from Selavy Oh - see: http://www.ohselavy/wordpress.com

Thursday August 12 - 2 PM SLT

'Ceci n est pas une voiture'

by Ze Moo

This event is a Loft Opening and Live Performance taking place in Ze's loft space at the Odyssey Artists Residence. Ze Moo opens his Lofts Studio with a performance.

Saturday August 14 - 3 PM SLT - FINAL PERFORMANCE

Alan Dojoji/Alan Sondheim with Sandy Baldwin

Flesh Meat - With Coastal Avatars

A few lines about the piece from Alan Sondheim: 

"I'm still looking at being-avatar in terms of sexuality, flesh, language;  I do this through the lone avatar who goes nowhere, gets nowhere. There's  no plot, nothing to reveal, nothing you don't already know, getting up in  the morning, looking in the period. What's staring back at you has a name." 

Performance by Alan Sondheim, Sandy Baldwin, and thanks to so many others.

virus. circus. breath.

On August 1st, as part of the Everywhere Performance Art Festival, Odyssey hosts:

virus.circus.breath

Micha Cárdenas / Azdel Slade and Elle Mehrmand / Echolalia Azalee

Time and SLURL TBA soon.

virus.circus is an episodic series of performances using wearable electronics, soft sensors and live audio to bridge virtual and physical spaces. The performances explore possible queer futures of latex sexuality amidst a speculative world of virus hysteria.

For your protection and the protection of others, you may be asked to wear a surgical mask.

The Lofts Are Open

The new Odyssey Artist in Residence Lofts are now officially open and we celebrated throughout the day on Wednesday June 15th. Visitors dropped by the new studio spaces built by Chi5 Shenzhou and met some of the new Artists in Residence - Sca Shilova, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, nora Furlough, Ze Moo, Xisuthra Lomu, Ze Moo, SaveMe Oh, Masami Kuramoto, Chi5 Shenzhou, DanCoyote Antonelli with lizsolo Mathilde and Fau Ferdinand as onsite technical support.

An impromptu play by Fau Ferdinand, Pyewacket Kazyanenko and lizsolo Mathilde started off the event.

SaveMe Oh took to the stage and announced her candidacy as president of Second Life. Read Saveme Oh's Manifesto.

The Lofts Residencies provide artists with a workspace and prims to work with as well as access to a common area for holding events, experimenting and having conversations. This first residency runs from June 15 to October 15, 2010.

VB and Co on Odyssey

Odyssey is pleased to present:

V A N E E E S A B L A Y L O C K / C O M P A N Y

performance artists

=== VB16- AU PAIR NEXT DOOR ===

Friday 16 April 2010 Noon SLT – Saturday 17 April 2pm SLT

http://slurl.com/secondlife/East%20of%20Odyssey/49/161/367

One year ago this month, VB/CO was launched with our performance of VB01 - GIRL NEXT DOOR. We thought we'd celebrate this first birthday by throwing a spectacular ball for the avatar we believe to be the most often chosen by new residents, Girl Next Door.

But, like a modern-day virtual-Cinderella, our Girl doesn't just get to attend the fabulous ball in her honor - oh no - hardly!! She's got a lot of cleaning to do before she gets to dance!

For 24 hours before the ball, the Au Pair Next Door will wash YOUR clothes!

From Noon SLT on Friday 16 April to noon on Saturday 17 April, YOU are invited to come to the gallery wearing transferable clothes. The Au Pair Next Door will give you a laundry basket to put your clothes in, yes this will leave you naked, but she'll wash as fast as she can, and she'll even give you a towel to wear while you wait. The Au Pair Next Door will take your clothes, wash, dry, and iron them, and return them to you nice and warm and smelling clean and fresh.

We’ll be able to accommodate all fabrics, so in addition to machine washing we will dry clean your fine garments, hand-wash your delicates, and we'll hand-wash your latex in a very mild soap and air dry it.

Then from Noon-2pm SLT the Au Pair Next Door will "dance" at the ball in her honor! The Noon "dance" will be performed by as many avatars as would like to be on stage. 16-24... perhaps more...

A fabulous After-Party will take place at 2pm SLT, through the Manhole Cover to a Magical Realm!

All events will be held under the giant 50-meter VB/CO Dome at Odyssey, lined with images from VB/CO’s first year.

When you arrive at Odyssey, set your environment to midnite, grab a parachute from the dispenser, and enjoy the ride down to the VB/CO Dome.

See you there!

http://vaneeesa.blogspot.com/

"Remap Berlin" Closing Event

Marco Manray Cadioli's Remap Berlin closed on Odyssey Exhibit C on February 27th with an Open House.

The artist was in attendance and many visitors came by throughout the afternoon. Remap Berlin goes on to a new exhibit inside the virtual world of Twinity.

ABOUT REMAP BERLIN By Marco Cadioli aka Marco Manray

Synopsis - “Remap Berlin” spreads a thin geographical virus in Google Earth and deals with different levels of reality. The project introduces a series of b&w photographs shot in Twinity, a mirror world that reproduces a realistic 3D replica of Berlin. The photos shot in Twinity, are then

geo-localized in Google maps, re-mapped from virtual to real and positioned in the exact point where they have been shot in the mirror world. Once uploaded in the photo sharing community Panoramio, the pictures are mixed up with other ones shot in the same geographical point from real life users. Many of these pictures have been selected by Google and can now be found as “Popular photos in Google Earth”: his became a little geographical virus, parts of our memories of the real world. The photographs are cityscapes, shot by Marco Manray roaming around the still empty streets of Berlin in the beta version.

This piece is the new step of Cadioli’s journey around the metaverse - after war games, Second Life and the chinese virtual world HIPIHI - and reflects on the way in which we are shaping the metaverse, and on the cultural impact of this development on the way we experience collective places.The exploration reaches the city edges, where streets end on the boundary line between land and sky - temporary borders of an expanding universe. Remap Berlin was presented for the first time on Odyssey art and performance simulator in Second Life on July 2009. Google hasn’t discovered the fake yet."

from Marco Manray Cadioli's Website

Visitors:

SLaddict Screening on Ody

Screening of SLaddict

SLaddict - a new film from d-oo-b (Eifachfilm Vacirca) - screened on Odyssey East on Wednesday February 3rd at 2PM SLT and 6 PM SLT. The filmmaker was in attendance. SLaddict is a film about the good and bad sides of excess in Second Life. It was the starting point for some very stimulating, sometimes heated, conversations among the audience on the subjects of addiction, mass media perception of online spaces as well as the sharing of personal stories related to the themes of the piece.

You can see the film here:

Filmmaker, Eifachfilm Vacirca, with audience: