Work
Postscript
Maker They Played Productions · Work date 2022-10-17 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
Postcript: An Immersive Epilogue 6 months after the initial run of “We Should Meet in Air”, revisit the lives of two artists in this solo immersive phone experience. Once upon a time, two women lived very similar lives, and walked the same road, even though they lived decades apart from each other. This is the story of the road they both walked, and of the crossroads which finally separated them. Postscript is a live, over-the-phone interactive experience designed for one audience member at a time. A true epilogue to the immersive experience We Should Meet In Air, this 20-minute immersive experience returns the audience member to Stepy Kamei's brilliantly crafted and penetrating look into the idea of what it means to be an artist and find yourself at the precipice of erasure. Note: It is highly recommended audience members experience the previous telephone experience, We Should Meet
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
Over-the-phone delivery with no headphone instruction, so the requirement is inferred absent.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
A 20-minute phone call for one listener with no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing calls it a live over-the-phone experience.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
Nothing in the listing requires a location, circumstance or language; the only prerequisite named is having seen the earlier piece.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The story concerns two fictionalised artists and 'the road they both walked' with no identifiable real place or documented event named.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone call presupposes a telephone, not city surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
The maker frames it as an immersive theater epilogue, naming no non-theatrical discipline.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing uses 'audience member', 'initial run' and 'immersive experience'.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The listing says nothing about the participant's surroundings figuring in the work.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
It is described as an interactive experience for one audience member.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
The listing states it is a live over-the-phone experience for one audience member at a time.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or win/lose state appear; it is narrative epilogue.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical objects are mentioned either way.
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