ACTUA 1 is a live-film performance piece that constructs an event that both happened and did not. An exercise in futility and concentration, the piece is named after Actua One, a lost film from the May ‘68 uprisings in Paris. Performers pace restlessly behind a movie screen erected onstage of the Collapsable Hole as well as in all the nooks and crannies of the theater and surrounding spaces. Spouting slogans for a missing revolution, actors propel themselves out of stagnation and boredom through complex object procedures and mental tasks. Speeches, music, activities, text, and images are projected onto the onstage movie screen via videocameras and microphones, where the audience can watch from a comfortable distance. The action is both intimately proximal and telepresent. ACTUA 1: an absent performance for five performers—the soldiers from Godard’s “Les Carabiniers” performing Allan Kaprow on public access.
Presented by Object Collection.
