These are systems for bodies and voices. Instead of using a script or score, we perform flowcharts and protocols. We lift these flowcharts and protocols from a wide range of finely tuned machines including: call centers, corporate boardroom meetings, film production studios, psychoanalytic sessions, interrogation cells, and newscasts. We are less obsessed with virtuosity than with self-optimization, and we are obsessed with exactly six relays: body to psyche to voice, psyche to voice to body, body to voice to psyche, psyche to body to voice, voice to body to psyche, and voice to psyche to body. We are a corporation, and as such we value our capacity to be modular, adaptable, scalable, and responsive. We are fascinated by the human / machine coupling, but not as separate entities coming together. It all happens inside of us as we enact algorithms — sending, receiving, cutting, pasting, scrambling, looping, scanning.
CREDITS
created by Joe Diebes
in collaboration with performers:
Christina Campanella
Michael Chinworth
Jessica Jelliffe
John Rose
concept, music/sound, direction, visual design: Joe Diebes
lighting design: Steve Brady
sound engineer, Charles Shell
set: John Rose
words written automatically by Christina Campanella, Michael Chinworth, Joe Diebes, Jessica Jelliffe, and John Rose
production and stage manager, Emily Rea
stage manager, Paloma Wake
videographer, Alban Andreu
assistance, Andrey Radovski