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AV Lodge (2007)

AV Lodge is the ongoing media performance project of Harp + Silver. Our first project is AV Lodge Presents: Fruit Machine. A ten-part, evening-length media performance, Fruit Machine, is a bawdy look at diverse sexualities. The parade of characters includes a life-sized toy robot; a dome-headed rabbit that uses his/her body as an instrument; and an androgynous punk rock bagpipe player. Five live acts are each followed by a related music video. In the live acts, costumes and props are wireless devices, which control video and sound in custom computer programs created in Max/MSP/Jitter and Processing. The imagery: colorful, playful and humorous, uses the classic strategies of camp aesthetics to challenge hetero-normative assumptions. The goal of Fruit Machine is to present an evening length media performance that uses limited means to transport the audience into a magical world of rich illusions and mutable genders. Combining sculptural controllers with live and pre-recorded sound and video, the performance will create a bridge between our daily physical world and the unbounded universe of the screen. All of the imagery references an animistic eroticism or the rampaging glee of unbounded id. The wish fulfillment of merging the real physical world and the screen-world is just another loosening of boundaries in a spectacle that celebrates desire’s myriad expressions.

Performance, Round The Coyote Festival, Curated by Abigail Satinsky, October 13, 2007