[spectre] "November" An online networked performance.

[marc]

"November" An online networked performance.

Join us as we cast out the stale air of the fading summer and move 
together into winter. Celebrating Halloween and the changing of the 
season, we come together online to exchange our collected thoughts 
across the Internet whilst each eating garlic cloves.

This networked performance by Patrick Simons and Kate Southworth
(glorious ninth) in collaboration with Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett
(Furtherfield.org) will be launched at: -

Time: 9 minutes and 41 seconds before midnight (GMT).
Date: 31st October 2006.
Location: http://november.gloriousninth.net

NOVEMBER is a performance that utilises peer-to-peer instant messaging 
technology, and the participants were able to see and hear each other on 
their computers throughout. Working with their own pre-chosen texts, 
each participant alternated between reading aloud and listening, 
amending and improvising their performances in response to each other. 
At times a cacophony of competing voices, the performance was a 
spontaneous and unrehearsed encounter, exposing moments of 
vulnerability, intimacy, connection and rhythm.