Lathsh(n)ev

I. THE LAST THEATRE SHOW EVER [LATHSHNEV]
or 'how to dismantle theatre by making an electro-digital instrument out of it'.

A controversial aesthetic-cultural experiment about trying to build a new future for an old discipline, in 7 days.
Launched by Natalia Borissova and Gívan Belá

with a group of electronic and digital artists and objects as motors for a necessary change.

The first workshop/ACT takes place in Munich i-camp/September 21 - 27, 2009
Dates:
Project-week September 21 - 27, 2009
Public rehearsal/entertainment September 27, 2009, 5pm
Host-location:
i-camp Neues Theater München
Realization:
In two (social) ACTS/September 21 - 27, 2009 and Spring 2010

ACT I
INITIALIZATION AND PUBLIC REHEARSAL THE LAST THEATER SHOW EVER
Act 1, Scene 1:
INITIALIZATION, MOBILIZATION/over Summer 2009
Enter: Gívan Belá BE/CZ http://societyofalgorithm.org &
Natalia Borissova RU/D http://www.aa-vv.org, almost in time
Act 1, Scene 2:
PREPARATION, MAKING / September 21 - 26, 2009
Enter group of human actors:
Michal Kindernay CZ
http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Michal_Kindernay
http://yo-yo-yo.org
Jr. Isjtar BE
http://isjtar.org
Kruno Jost HR
http://gentlejunk.net/projects
Mara Karagianni GR/NL
http://www.nadine.be/blog/2009/08/interaction/
http://pzwart2.wdka.hro.nl/~mkaragianni/homepage.html
Frauke Frech D
http://www.thevirtualanatomicaltheatre.net
Heike Sigert D (p.s. Have been playing a robot.. Nobody supposed to be hired to maintain it though.. By itself it could just wave into the pointed on it video-camera.. The wrong role you have been choosing, Heike..)
http://www.space-available.org
Signe Lidén NO
Simon Kaphahn D
Fatima Njai D
Helen Varley Jamieson NZ
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.avatarbodycollision.org
http://www.upstage.org.nz
http://www.themagdalenaproject.org
Dominik Tresowski PL/DE (p.s. Left his mask and disappeared as a productive form..)
http://prosumeconduce.info
Remote group:
Alejandra Nunez-Perez aka elpueblodechina CL
http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Alejandra_Perez_Nunez# a
Suzon Fuks AU
http://nathaliefougeras.org
Nathalie Fougeras SE
http://nathaliefougeras.org
Audrey Samson NL/BE
http://nathaliefougeras.org
Act 1, Scene 3:
THE LAST THEATER SHOW EVER/September 27, 2009, 5 pm
Enter: all = Actors, Props, Light, Sound, Audience


BREAK:
Evaluation and extension of the group/over Winter 2009-10


ACT II
REALIZATION AND SHOW 'THE FIRST THEATRE SHOW NEVER!' / Spring-week, 2010
Act 2, Scene 1:
REALIZATION
Enter: extended group of collaborators
Act 2, Scene 2:
THE FIRST THEATER SHOW NEVER!/Spring-day, 2010
Enter: extended all


DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A SCENARIO FOR A WEEK-LONG 'SPECTACLE'?:
September 21. 2009/2 pm at i-camp
Overview of texts and materials
Presentation of personal creative tools and ideas to work with
Decide on what/how 'to do' next
Start/continue with a remote things
Food & cooking (around 7 pm at i-camp)
September 22. 2009/12 pm at i-camp
Small try out actions by everyone
Interpretations of all actions by everyone
Continue or start things elsewhere
Food & cooking (around 7 pm at i-camp)
September 23-24-25. 2009/Anytime (upon the particular run) at i-camp
Working out larger and more complex actions with image/sound/light/electronics/comp/...
Trying out, performing, relating, resisting (turned over/inside out)
Food & cooking (around 7 pm at i-camp)
September 26. 2009/Anytime (upon the particular run) at i-camp
(De)bugging, assembling, interpreting, breakdowns, mess up
Food & cooking (around 7 pm at i-camp
September 27. 2009/Anytime (upon the particular run). 5 pm public performance at i-camp
Breakfast (around 11 am at i-camp)
Complex (no) conclusion: THE LAST THEATER SHOW EVER = All 'objects' are having relationship with human and non-human each-other publicly.


OBJECTIVES OF THE ACT 1:
The major objective of act 1 is to start up the process, of which the outcome is to redefine the context of drama and theatre. In the first meeting we will provide an introduction to the general idea, and start working with the different media and concepts. It functions not as a tutorial or learning moment but rather an exploration for the features of the chosen artifacts and tools. The goal of this first workshop can be described as trying to realize an unfinished work. Exactly like so many literary and musical works are about. Geoffrey Chaucer never completed The Canterbury Tales. Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger was written in three different versions over a period of 20 years, none of which were complete. Honoré de Balzac, the French novelist, completed nearly 100 pieces for his novel sequence La Comédie humaine, but a planned 48 more were never finished. Other famous unfinished works include: the second part of Dead Souls by Gogol, Bouvard et Pécuchet by Flaubert, and not to forget the sublime Woyzeck, the stage play written by Georg Büchner. Here we can continue to sum up works from music, architecture, drawing, painting and sculpture, film but also from philosophy, computer science, ... And that is how we want the first enactment of the workshop's endeavor to look like: unfinished but influential for the continuation of the project. Further evaluation, expansion and elaboration on the missing points will be worked on during winter. It forms the blueprint for the second act in Spring 2010. We start forming gradually a group of interested and motivated people, to work along the lines of the text of ACT 1. The 7 features mentioned in the abstract/pamphlet, are indicative for the diverse backgrounds and sub-goals we are working with. For each feature a couple of people are asked to work along with us. These people are gradually involved in the conversation and collaboration. They will introduce and guard the feature they take care of to the participants (max 5). One per feature will be present in September 2009. The others will continue to work online and join in with the preparation and realization of the second workshop(ACT) 2010, leading to the 'never final' performance.


INVITATION:
All media-related artists, from any discipline possible, working in a contemporary and experimental spirit are cordially invited to join forces in Munich with different media, concepts and ideas along those lines:
http://writingthrough.societyofalgorithm.org/node/21
http://writingthrough.societyofalgorithm.org/node/18
http://writingthrough.societyofalgorithm.org/node/33
The unique requirement is to have a dedication towards realizing the project's goal, to remain present in Munich for the week of September 21.-27. 2009, and to disseminate results afterward, critically mentioning the initiative.


RRF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=828NGoYdNeE
http://www.idst.vt.edu/modernworld/d/futurist.html
http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett_film.html


Get in touch:
lathshnev at aa-vv dot org

Hosted and kindly supported by:
I-camp Neues Theater München, Bezirk Oberbayern, Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München