NIKITA GALE'S SITE-Specific Performance in the VW Dome
AUDIENCING examines the role of the audience as a social arena, taking
on formal aspects of spectacle found in live music and political
speeches. Drawing from the architecture of the VW Dome, the work
references similar domed structures and their relationship to
narratives of spectatorship and survival—as biological experiments
or as refuge for victims of natural disasters.
The core of the work is an original score, which takes cues from a
wide range of audio genres including pop, political speeches,
voice-overs, and experimental noise. AUDIENCING questions how
technological innovations have created limitless potential for
consumption of entertainment, complicated the dynamic between
performers and their audiences, and placed unattainable demands on the
biological body, sometimes with dire consequences as in the cases of
Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and Prince.
Responding to the aestheticization of performers' labor, as well as
the pain and exhaustion of performance and its visibility, there are
no live performers in this work. Instead, the audience is seated
beneath a vaulted stage in an arrangement that refuses any unified
perspective, undermining the stage’s function as a frame for
performance. A programmed and automated sound and lighting system
transforms the dome into a multidimensional playback device.
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