Fwd: invitation to chat about technological crises, collective creation, and opera (on Zoom this Friday)
Eldad Tsabary
From: Eldad Tsabary <Eldad....@concordia.ca>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2022 at 1:30 PM
Subject: invitation to chat about technological crises, collective creation, and opera (on Zoom this Friday)
To: <ELECTROA...@lists.concordia.ca>
Hello friends,
If you are free this Friday at 4 PM, come join the RISE team on Zoom for a critical reflection session about the topic of the year: technological crises, as they have been enacted in the RISE opera projects (a couple of them with CLOrk).
I would love to have your ears and minds in the mix.
The operas RISE has co-created this year so far (there are two more coming up in the next month)
Returning to the Trees: The technological Burnout Crisis (RISE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwrGDYQaxQ
- Featuring co-improvisation with the birds and the trees at the St. Joachim forest.
Cyber Identity Crisis (RISE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPg9-oLuzAs
- A fun show at the Oscar Peterson Concert hall about the ambiguity and confusion of online and offline identity in the age of cyberlife (especially for Zoomers)
Why do we dream? A lucid dream opera by RISE and CLOrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rfVF1Ixjgg
- A mad mass collective improvisation enacting a lucid dream state with sounds, visuals, acting, singing, reciting dream journal phrases, handing objects, fortune telling, painting, dancing, and camping.
lost_connection: an opera by RISE and CLOrk about how technology fails us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9hFR7fzTZ8
- A multi-local awesome performance by CLOrk with RISE about technological losses in different eras (the 80s, Y2K, 2020s, 2040s)
If you are free and would love to come, please write Sheena Bernett, the RISE team research assistant:
sheena bernett infori...@gmail.com
To provide your consent and to get a zoom link
The event will be an open discussion with RISE’s creative and research crew about this year's mini operas, which enacted technological crises of diverse natures.
We will collectively reflect on:
• The collective process and its evolution
• Insights that emerged from dealing with these technological crises through performance
• How enactment catalyzed as a thinking mode
We will begin with these prompts and explore what other insights emerge—discussing the opera narrative and drama, cataclysms, collective fears, speculative research-creation, scenario enactment, and more.
What is RISE?
Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments
Led by Dr. Eldad Tsabary and funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Reflective Iterative Scenario Enactments (RISE) is a Le PARC based 5-year (2020-2025) research-creation project designed to enact and investigate cataclysmic scenarios in 10 mini-operas.
If you would like to know more about the RISE project, you can visit https://riseopera.ca
I look forward to seeing you there!
Best,
Eldad Tsabary,
&
~Sheena Bernett
RISE Methodology RA
Dr. Eldad Tsabary, Associate Professor
Area head, Interdisciplinary Studies in Fine Arts (FoFA)
Area head, Electroacoustic Studies (Music Dept.)
Co-director, Performing Arts Research Cluster (Le PARC)
https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/eldad-tsabary.html