Performance of @tension beta-tested by #viralflock

Pretentious Productions in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada presented @tension beta-tested by #viralflock livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 29 April at 9:30 p.m. EDT (Toronto) / 8:30 p.m. CDT (Winnipeg) / 7:30 p.m. MDT (Calgary) / 6:30 p.m. PDT (Vancouver) / (Saturday, April 30 at 01:30 GMT). 

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@tension is a physical, intermedial/technological, ensemble creation with a small group of performers and technicians. The purpose of this project is to investigate society’s use and dependence on various social media platforms (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.) and how social media constructs, disrupts, and remoulds identity. It is a blend of live physical performance in real life intersecting with live digital performance on screen. Through its social media presence, the show becomes its own character online. We hope to disrupt the normalcy of digital existence by bringing the audience into the hyper-real of the digital plane. With the omnipresence of social media and digital technologies, how we interact with each other is changing. But how we interact with ourselves is changing, too. The construction and negotiation of identity online is a contemporary and relevant topic. @tension seeks not to tell the audience, but to show them in real time how quickly we can lose control of ourselves, our image, and our reality. By the end of the performance, the audience will question which self and which existence is the real one: the digital or the physical.

The show will be livestreaming closing night on HowlRound TV. It is being performed in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at the Second Playing Space (in the Timms Centre for the Arts at the University of Alberta campus).

#viralflock is an ad-hoc ensemble based in Edmonton, and the show is being presented by the new independent performance company Pretentious Productions.

Please stay tuned after the show for a talkback with the team! You can participate in the talkback and interact with the show on social media by tagging @tensionshow on Twitter, on Facebook, and on Instagram. You can also use the hashtag #howlround during the stream!

For more information, please visit our social media or check-out the show’s website: www.attensionshow.ca. Please consider donating to the Kickstarter. 

About HowlRound TV

HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected], or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.