Live Art Speed Date London

Added: Mar 5, 2010

From: thesponk

Duration: 3:58

http://www.stkinternational.co.uk Stoke Newington International Airport presents: A roster of the finest artists and performers waiting to lay their dates on you. Followed by music and dancing In collaboration with the Camden Peoples Theatre, we present a theatre full of the finest artists, theatre makers and performers ready to lay their dates on you. We have commissioned them to create for you a private one-on-one, four minute date. Upon arrival you are given a Date card (like an old fashioned Dance Card), which you will fill with 'dates'. The dates are distributed through a trading mechanism which resembles a busy day at the NY Stock Exchange, only sexier. Get excited and trade up your date for the one you want. When not engaged in an official date, you may explore the cavernous Unit K and indulge in all manner of Auto Dates, fringe dates, and other games that will all end, hopefully, in love. Or something like it. Add to this live music, Dj's and a great party. LASD is a vibrant fairground of private encounters between artist and audience. In a large room artists occupy booths, tables, and dark corners where they perform their four-minute-long date to their guest. The audience are given cards for the date they want, and when not dating engage in auto-dates and other playful interactions. The whole event is highly charged and opens discussions between audience members as to what they have experienced, examines the phenomenon of the encounter, and tests the boundaries of performance. By socialising the event we turn up the heat on what is private. That privacy can be thought of as ownership of the potential experience, and so the dates are commodified. The ensuing market drives anticipation and increases the perceived value of each encounter. As the reports come back from the dates the private encounter enjoys a second, public life as a myth of itself. Aint that cute? Originally produced for last year's St Valentine's day, LASD has taken on a life of it's own with Dates at the Edinburgh Festival and the Dublin Fringe. After this one LASD travels to Tokyo, then the Bristol Old Vic for Mayfest (with Forest Fringe) and in the summer you can catch it at BAC for their festival of intimate performance.

Channel: Entertainment

Tags: live  art  speed  web 

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