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 Originally made for SaveMe's return in Caerleon but rejected at the last moment, ScreenMe has been performed only once before, in May 2011, on the Amsterdam sim.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".

2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival

Starting this week! The 2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival runs from July 7th until the 17th on Odyssey.

Featuring performances by: Alan Sondheim/Alan Dojoji, Marmaduke and Kikas, SaveMe Oh, ArthOle, Kakukkfu Yosuke, Kai Steamer, Kristine Schomaker/Gracie Kendall, Liz Solo, Fau Ferdinand, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, DanCoyote Antonelli, the Second Life Cheerleading Squad, Sca Shilova, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and more.

Full Schedule coming shortly.

poster by Jo Ellsmere

Call for Odyssey Performers

Call for Odyssey Performers

The 2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival is approaching.

Artists are invited to make proposals for site specific performances and special events for the 2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival - Odyssey Island, July 7 to 16th, 2011. All performance based ideas are welcome, hybrid-reality performances are encouraged.

In your proposal please include:

Your SL name, Event Title, brief description of performance, technical and space requirements, area of Odyssey where you would like to perform.

Anywhere on the island is open to performers. If you have any questions or would like a tour of the island to view potential performance spaces please contact lizsolo Mathilde and/or Fau Ferdinand.

Please make your proposals to Fau Ferdinand and lizsolo Mathilde in a Notecard with the heading “Proposal - Odyssey Performance Art Festival”.

Deadline is June 15.

Response to Sorir Nishi blogpost

Response from Patrick Lichty/Man Michinaga to Soror Nishi's recent blog post about the LEA Opening.

I have a few notes regarding Soror Nishi’s post regarding the opening of the Linden Endowment for the Arts opening, the expulsion of SaveMe Oh, and the protest by Dancoyote Antonelli regarding Rhett Linden’s statement that art is such great free advertising. As one of the leading members of one of the world’s foremost virtual performance art groups, Second Front, I would like to say that in regards to Linden Labs’ form of support for the arts through the LEA, etc. I don’t really care.

That’s not true. I think that a more accurate statement is that I really don’t think it matters. Why?

First, I’m not performing the usual trumped-up promotion of one’s own group one finds in Second Life. There are plenty of other very respected “Real Life” artists, such as Scott Kildall, Joseph DeLappe, Micha Cardenas, Stephanie Rothenberg, and Cao Fei who use SL as a medium who will probably never bee promoted by Linden Labs, with the probable exception of Cao Fei. Why?

Because the paradigm of Second Life is a solipsism, pure and simple. The problem with SL Art is that it focuses on SL as a paradigm that rotates around Linden Labs, and not as a medium. It focuses on the residents that are trying from within SL to get respect for it by the exterior world, rather than working with respected artists period who merely use SL as a medium.

The issue is that artists who wish that Linden Labs would act as an advocate for them are looking in the wrong direction, not only because of LL’s mindset that the Residents are assets for free marketing, but that Linden Labs itself has lost a great deal of its ability to leverage credible PR for its content in the past years.

Second Life has lost much of its lustre, but the reasons why are not important. What is important is that at the LEA kickoff, we had artists actually engaging with LL’s policies and culture as if they were relevant, which it is not. Why?

Because most of the more greatly recognized artists mentioned above, showing in venues such as the Performa Performance Art Bienniale in NYC, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, the Donaufestival Krems, the Sundance New Horizons Festival, the Australian national Portrait Gallery, the Yokohama Trienniale, Ars Electronica, and so on simply aren’t on the radar in SL because of this cognitive dissonance. Period.

The paradigm of trying to promote SL Art through LL as a revolutionary new form that the world has to come into to see simply _does_not_work_. Many of the leading artists using SL are not the most visible names in the community, and that’s another disconnect, and many of them have moved on by now.

It’s a problem. SL has had its prime and now it is a mature platform with artists who use it without relying on its “sex” factor, and the Linden Endowment for the Arts providing servers is a good start, but will not really leverage the artists without proper PR and contextual framing.

As for the rest of us who do our SL work for RL and don’t really engage much with the LL culture, we’re doing fine. It’s not that we’re against Linden Labs; far from it. It’s that we understand that they don’t understand the art and festival world because they’re a software company, and high artists are a) not amateur assets, and b) don’t really care if they’re famous in Second Life. Don’t gvet me wrong, no one’s looking down on the SL community, again – far from it, they’re a great bunch of people, but SL’s myopia serves the needs of Linden labs and its promotion of SL, and That’s just not relevant to an artist’s practice. It’s like voluntarily promoting a type of oil paint because you use it, and only associate with the artists who use that oil paint. It’s just not relevant.

So going back to the Linden Endowment for the Arts opening, Dancoyote’s protest of Linden’s leveraging its artist for PR, and the expulsion of the avatar SaveMe Oh for creating her signature visual noise – in art world terms, it was nonexistent. Why that is important is as long as Second Life seeks normal credibility, it has to think in terms of partnerships with the contemporary art world, and not just trying to create new promotional plans for its community. And, until LL understands its role as a platform rather than paradigm again, it will continue on its road of solipsistic cheerleading into an uncertain future.

As for the rest of us, we will be diligently doing our work, appreciatively working in SL, but all the while knowing that it is the larger frame of reference that serves our work, not the frame of Linden Labs.

Patrick Lichty/Man Michinaga

Low Lives on Odyssey

Second Front performed last week on Odyssey as part of the Low Lives 3 International Festival of Networked Performances. The Infamous Tommy Lee Affair is an interpretation of the incident involving Motley Crue Drummer Tommy Lee calling for an airlift only to have his chopper forced down due to pilot intoxication. Police brutality ensues!

See the Video here: The Infamous Tommy Lee Affair.

Partying hard - Bibbe Oh/Bibbe Hansen, Tran Spire/Doug Jarvis, Man Machiniga/Patrick Lichy, Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks, lizsolo Mathilde/Liz Solo.

The Airlift!

Police down the party plane. Officer Ferdinand closes in to make the arrests.

Don't Feed the Poor

Images from Sca Shilova's performance piece "Don't Feed the Poor" at the Zeitgeist Festival - Odyssey Simulator and Muro Gallery, Geneva.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse on Odyssey

We are very happy to announce that the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse will be performing a concert of original compositions this Saturday March 26 at 12:30 PM SLT on Odyssey. Titled "This One's For You", this is a concert for Second Life audiences only - something a little different than AOM's renowned hybrid-reality events.

Join us here:

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/145/155/301/