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The Clemenger BBDO Season of Super Vision

The Builders Association & dbox, United States

Director Marianne Weems talks about Super Vision.quicktime (1.55 MB)

“A Super Vision ranks as one of the most fascinating and rewarding multimedia theatre works in years.”

The Columbus Dispatch, US

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Can your data body keep a secret?

From the moment we are born, a cyber composite of ourselves begins to take shape, growing stronger with each credit card transaction, email written, and prescription filled. This data body carries stains that are harder to clean than mud or sin. Post 9/11, we’ve come to accept, allow and even encourage these subtle and unseen forms of surveillance.

New York-based performance ensemble The Builders Association and multi-disciplinary studio dbox have collaborated to produce a cutting-edge, cross-media performance. Through video technology, shifting worlds are created for the actors to inhabit – environments transform seamlessly, moving from room to room, country to country.

Super Vision uses the language and technologies of surveillance itself to create three multi-layered stories of life and identity theft in the digital age. Size up your data body in Super Vision, direct from The Big Apple.

Conceived and created by The Builders Association and dbox

Director – Marianne Weems

Concept – James Gibbs, Marianne Weems, Matthew Bannister, Charles d’Autremont, Dan Dobson

Executive Producer – Kim Whitener

Lead Co-producer: The Wexner Center in association with the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at The Ohio State University.

Co-producers: New Zealand International Arts Festival; Walker Art Center (Minneapoli, MN), with additional support for final technical development; Montclair State University: Office of Arts & Cultural Programming; Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, UC Davis; Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008; BAM Next Wave Festival.

Residency support provided by The Kitchen and Arts at St. Ann’s.

If this event interests you, our Artistic Director also recommends The Telecom Season of Eraritjaritjaka, DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, Instructions for Modern Living, and The Phoenix Foundation.