WEEK 8

. As well as expanding on our group projects, we also carried on the research of theaters changing to adapt to the audience. The audience as a spectator now wants to become more involved in the performance and live it for themselves. I researched into Coco Fusco, a female dramatist, who takes her spectators on journeys and allows them to explore the experience for themselves.

Coco Fusco not only performs live but also creates videos of her work.

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‘Fusco’s recent art projects combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. In collaboration with Ricardo Dominguez, Fusco is currently developing a bilingual on-line game that maps the movements of and restraints upon the various social groups that inhabit the US-Mexico border for the 2005 InSite Biennial. She is currently developing a serious of new performances and videos about the role of female interrogators in the War on Terror’

Her work is ferocious and compelling, it can be commented as gender orientated as a lot of her work relates to females.

Coco shows us of how media and performance combine together to make a virtual performance, it is extremely interesting and engaging.

View the website for clips of previous productions:
www.cocofusco.com

In out group, it became clear, that as a group of four we had very different ideas on how chosen subject, I thought it would be interesting to take advantage of this, I suggested we formed a debate, this way we would all be able to discuss what we thought and all have an individual debate, I began watching political debates and researching material so I knew what was involved in a debate, and how it should be presented.