Friday, March 23, 2012
Review: Dutch 'Diespace' does death digitally
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Somewhere beyond the boundaries of traditional theater but just this side of the intersection of performance art and interactive installations, you'll find a band of artistic pioneers who go by the name PIPS:lab. Alternately, you can simply drop by the Trust Arts Education Center, Downtown, where you'll find this collective of Dutch artists performing "Diespace" through today as part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Distinctively Dutch Festival.
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So, this is weird. From my understanding, this show is about realizing and displaying death with a digital twist... It certainly is interesting to think about. Sometimes we portray death through technology in films (usually horror) and other times we portray death or creatures from the afterlife with a lack of substance. We see them and can feel a sense of them but these beings are not solid to us. I guess the way that death and the ideas of death are thought of is something that is intangible.
This idea of using technology is making this show sound all the more interesting. What continues that though is the way that there are elderly people using this technology and acting it out in a somewhat humorous way. First off, the elderly people currently in the world, did not come from a generation of technology. They are not the digitally savvy, all the time, and so it is interesting that the show chose to have them working all of these pieces and interact with the audience.
Speaking more about the audience, it is so unusual for the audience to participate in the show, in the way that the audience described it. They are literally incorporated into the show and place their voices into it. I mean, depending on how they incorporated, there is some fast work on the performers part. It must be added at random because how do you run through the material in a second if it was recorded a little bit before the show. At this point, I'm really curious to find out more about this show.
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