0 comments Thursday, November 5, 2009

Gazira Babeli with Man Machiniga performing Acting as Aliens live in Second Life and live at the Kapelica Gallery, Slovenia.
Gazira looks good in silhouette.
The aliens in the gallery interact with Gazira, offering her a beverage.
And pizza.
Some of the aliens communicate about their personal issues:Everyone is a critic. Even aliens.
Some interesting juxtapositions...
Documenting from both ends.
Find out more about this and other work by Gazira Babeli on her website - Gazira Babeli

0 comments Sunday, November 1, 2009

Images from the round table event, live at Odyssey Island and Kapelica Gallery. There was a great turnout:
Helfe Ihnen, Manager of Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator, and friend.Gaz on Gaz
About the Event
Gazira Babeli and Patrick Lichty
ACTING AS ALIENS
the ways of Performance Art in Digital Realities
Round table moderated by Domenico Quaranta
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia, hall M3/M4
and Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/122/45/25/
November 2, 2009 at 7 PM (CET), 10 AM (Second Life Time)

What happens to performance when the place is a computer screen and time is better described as the timelessness you experience in front of it, as both a performer and a spectator? When reality fades into the background to be replaced by a simulated scenario where physical laws are disregarded and almost anything is possible? When the body itself becomes a software (and cultural) construction? On the occasion of the exhibition of Second Life performer Gazira Babeli hosted by Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, this panel will try to answer these questions involving some of the most important practitioners and theoreticians in the field.
From the seminar room, curator Domenico Quaranta will moderate a round table that will alternate theoretical discourse and performances, involving:

- Helfe Ihnen, Manager of Odyssey Art and Performance Simulator, the place where the most
active community of art practitioners in Second Life gathers. Odyssey will host the panel in
Second Life, too;
- Patrick Lichty, artist, theoretician, curator and (as Man Michinaga) founding member of the
performing art collective Second Front;
- Gazira Babeli;
- and other members of the Odyssey community.