Real real #5

Performance, Digital

Artist/s: Ivan Cheng, Eugene Choi, Hyun Lee, Anna McMahon, Brooke Stamp, Athena Thebus, Akil Ahamat, Ainslie Templeton, Enoch Mailangi, Amrita Hepi and Future Method Studio (Genevieve Murray and Joel Sherwood-Spring) performed by Joseph Althouse, Gussy, Jason Phu, Mimi Phu, Verity Mackey, Joanna Brooke, Chloe Kim, Kartika Suharto-Martin

Real Real is a commissioned series that utilises the inherently performative nature of social media as a platform for new performance.

Each edition kicks off with a two week residency at C-A-C that will unfold on Instagram, and will culminate in a streamed performance on Facebook Live.

Live streaming on social media platforms has become a highly contested public space. Legislators are scrambling to regulate what has become a medium weaponised by extremists, activated by community uprisings and utilised by corporate influencers. Real Real explores the limits of this space as a platform for live performance. Social media live streaming has not only changed who can broadcast, but also what it means to be a witness to a live event. Real Real asks how is technology influencing live world experiences?

The fifth instalment of 'Real Real' will see artist Jason Phu collaborate with his mother Mimi Phu as the performer, costume designer Verity Mackey, and musicians Joanna Brooke, Chloe Kim and Kartika Suharto-Martin. Together they will stage a performance in five acts.

‘THE EMPRESS is bored and orders an extravagant meal, THE JILTED LOVER pines for the moon, the only thing bright and round enough, THE DEMON HUNTER is hunting THE DEMON but it feels like they are chasing their own shadow, THE FOOL DRUNKARD is a dumb maggot idiot.’

– Jason Phu.