Work
Escape
Maker Upintheair Theatre · Work date 2020-06-21 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
Escape is a one on one interactive performance exploring themes of escapism, psychogeography, corporeality and the dissociation from the body that comes with an increase of online interaction. This work is an individualized experience taking place between midnight and 3am. Presented by Future Leisure Created, Video Design by Julianne Chapple Performed by Maxine Chadburn, Julianne Chapple, Ed Spence, Jen Yan
Source. No published description found.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
Delivered by phone; no headphone instruction appears.
- Participants move through space as part of the workunknown?
“Psychogeography” is named as a theme, which leaves open whether the score actually directs movement; no instruction to relocate is stated.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Audio technology is necessaryyesI
The listed medium is telephone, so removing the phone would end the one-on-one encounter.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificSituationP
The listing names a required circumstance: “this work is an individualized experience taking place between midnight and 3am.”
- Engages with the history of a siteunknown?
Only themes are listed; nothing establishes whether documented history of a real place is referenced.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Created for an urban environmentunknown?
Psychogeography gestures at urban drifting but the listing never states that city surroundings are required.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Created as an artwork other than theaterunknown?
Themes of psychogeography and corporeality plus a video designer credit are suggestive, but no non-theatrical discipline is claimed as the frame.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Billed by Upintheair Theatre as “a one on one interactive performance” with a performer list and a presenter.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The listing says nothing about the participant’s real surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesI
Described as “one on one interactive” and “individualized,” which implies the participant’s action drives it.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
Four performers are credited for a one-on-one experience run live in a midnight-to-3am window.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or resolution state appear in the listing.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No materials are mentioned in the short listing.
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