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i cut myself shaving and it bled so much

Maker Candle House  ·  Work date 2022-05-12  ·  Medium telephone  ·  Role work

Description

This is your final notice from America National. Failure to comply will result in immediate action. A black comedy with a razor's edge, "i cut myself shaving and it bled so much" is a remote, interactive experience for an audience of one involving German cinema, unconventional marketing, the art of romance, and a corporate courtesy call. "i cut myself shaving and it bled so much" is written by James La Bella as part of Candle House's FireStarter Initiative – an incubator for new/upcoming immersive creators by Evan Neiden.

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

  A remote phone experience with no headphone requirement stated.

• Participants move through space as part of the worknoI

  A remote call-based experience with no instruction to change location.

• Audio technology is necessaryyesP

  Built around 'a corporate courtesy call' delivered remotely by telephone.

• Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI

  No required site, circumstance, or language is named.

• Engages with the history of a sitenoI

  'America National' is a fictional creditor and German cinema is subject matter, not a real place's documented past.

• Created for an urban environmentnoI

  Nothing presupposes urban surroundings.

• Created as an artwork other than theaternoI

  Made for an immersive-creator incubator and framed as a black comedy; the German-cinema reference is content, not framing.

• Intended to be understood as theateryesP

  Listing calls it a 'black comedy' written for 'an audience of one' by an immersive-creator initiative.

• Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?

  Nothing is said about the participant's surroundings.
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• Spectator must participateyesP

  Listing calls it an 'interactive experience for an audience of one' framed as a call demanding compliance.

• Has live performers other than the participantsyesI

  A one-on-one interactive courtesy call implies a caller performing in real time, though liveness is not stated.

• Involves game playnoI

  No rules, objective, or resolution state described.

• Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?

  'Unconventional marketing' hints at materials but no physical object is specified.
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