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REMOTE – Aug 3-5, 10-12 (SF)

Video August 5th, 2006

REMOTE

My friend Ed from ITP and his wife are putting on a multimedia performance called REMOTE. Ed’s a genius and no doubt the performance is awesome. I hope to go on Aug 5 but I’m cramming on getting a piece ready for the cAtClySMic MegASHear rANCH Open Studios on Sunday and Thursday. REMOTE is also playing in NYC on Aug 18 and 19, at the Three Legged Dog art space that I have yet to check out.

“The further you are, the closer I feel to you… please, stay away” – Remote

In a time where traditional intelligence networks seem to have failed, and where “faith-based” decisions challenge scientific “objectivity”, this new multimedia theatre project by award winners Kraft + Purver examines the hilarious, poignant and disturbing ways we try to connect while maintaining a safe distance.

Remote investigates this theme through several narrative threads: the history of bizarre experiments in psychic spying performed by the CIA and U.S. military, the impact of technology on the nature of intimacy, and the dilemma of isolation vs entanglement in the American psyche. The performers navigate an immersive environment of live, interactive video manipulation, 3D landscapes and digital technology, blurring the lines between reality and perception and illuminating how distance allows us the grace of perspective and the capacity for violence.

From the creators of “Woods for the Trees”…
Kraft + Purver and CounterPULSE present
REMOTE
AUG 3, 4, 5 & 10, 11, 12th @ 8:00 pm
@ CounterPULSE 1310 Mission St (@ 9th St), SF
Tix $12-15 first weekend, $15-20 second weekend
Reservations: (415) 435-7552

http://www.counterpulse.org

http://www.kraftpurver.com

There is limited seating so make reservations now!

Also, the HERE American Living Room Festival presents the east coast premiere
Aug 18 & 19 @ 8:30pm
@ Three Legged Dog Arts & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich St, NYC
Buy tix: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=REM4&pcode=AME75

Conceived and created by Kraft + Purver with the performers
performed by Sara Kraft, Ed Purver, Ernie Lafky, Rowena Richie
Directed by Sara Kraft
Visual Design by Kraft + Purver
Video by Ed Purver
Sound & Music by Sheldon Smith
Songs by Sara Kraft
Lighting by Frieda Kipar
Costumes by Jenny McAllister
Stage Managed by Joy Newhart
Production Interns: Blake McConnell & Jackie Bendzinski

“Transporting, shrewdly evocative, and often very funny, their creative process suggests two precocious, deeply mischievous children with advanced degrees and the keys to the laboratory” – San Francisco Bay Guardian

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