Eva
and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG
have defined Synthetic
Performance as a performative
action that takes place
in synthetic worlds and video-games.
All actions are performed
by the artists through their avatars,
which were constructed
out of the shape and surface of their
bodies. People can
attend the live performances and interact
with the video-game
from all over the world. The performers
never meet their
public in person, their relation is mediated by
the avatars. Their contribution to PERFORMA 07 will be the
reenactment of three historical performances staged in Second
Life. Eva and Franco Mattes will perform live from Artists
Space;
those unable to attend the live performance are invited
to
participate in Second Life at Odyssey (4pm SL time)
Within Synthetic Performances space, matter, body and action
are radically
different from traditional performance art. Feelings like
pain and pleasure are
completely abstract, mental. The performer
leaves sweat, weariness and pain to
the machine. In a Synthetic
Performance everything is mediated, nothing
is direct, everything
is artificial, nothing is natural.
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG are a couple
of restless European
con-artists who use unconventional communication
tactics to obtain the largest
visibility with minimal effort. Past works
include staging a hoax involving a
completely made-up artist, ripping
off the Holy See and spreading a computer
virus as a work of art.
Since January 2007 the Mattes have been working on a
series of
reenactments of historical performances in the synthetic world Second
Life. So far the series includes: Chris Burden's Shoot, Vito Acconci's
Seedbed,
Valie Export's Tapp und Tastkino and the ongoing Joseph
Beuys' 7000 Oaks.
www.aksioma.org
Produced with the generous support of Aksioma
- Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana.
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