INVITATION TO THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

THE BRAIN STRIPPED BARE installation / performance

by Rebecca Allen in collaboration with osseus labyrint


PREMIERE: July 5th, 20.00h, July 6 at 22.00h, July 7 at 20.00h

PLACE: Duisburg (D), Ausstellungshalle am Innenhafen, Philosophenweg
(entrance opposite of the Museum Kuppersmuhle)

TICKETS: tel. +49-(0)203-94000 www.duisburger-akzente.de

FURTHER PERFORMANCES: September 12-14, 2002, tanzhaus nrw Dusseldorf :
www.tanzhaus-nrw.de

INFO: http://www.rheintanzmedia.net tel:+49-(0)221-722133


The rhein.tanzmedia.net-Prize of the international competition
rhein.tanzmedia.web went to the American media artist Rebecca Allen for her
project THE BRAIN STRIPPED BARE which will be premiered at the Akzente
Festival in Duisburg. A second elaborated version will be shown in September
in Dusseldorf at the tanzhaus nrw.

THE BRAIN STRIPPED BARE considers a future where we live simultaneously in
multiple realities, where the boundaries between physical and virtual
reality are blurred and thoughts are expressed telepathically.
Advanced technology can provide an enhanced life experience but with this
comes sophisticated forms of surveillance that track our behaviors, our
movements and our identity. Technology can strip away our layers of
privacy.

In this performance both the body and the mind are exposed. Unlike
traditional theater that separates the audience from the performers, the
performers surround and infiltrate the audience.
Surrounded by a circle of screens the audience is free to shift their point
of view. Live performers merge with shadows, projected images and sounds,
revealing stark human forms that move in startling and perplexing ways.
This creates a raw, very physical yet illusory interactive experience that
connects an audience to a performance in a way not previously explored.

BIOGRAPHIES

Rebecca Allen is an internationally recognized media artist inspired by the
potential of advanced technology, the aesthetics of motion and the study of
behavior. Her work takes the form of interactive art installations,
computeranimated films and live multimedia performances. Performance work
includes collaborations with Twyla Tharp, Joffrey Ballet, La Fura dels Baus,
Peter Gabriel and Kraftwerk. Allen was founding chair of the UCLA Department
of Design | Media Arts, where she is currently a professor. Her work is
exhibited and published internationally and is part of the permanent
collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou and Whitney Museum of American
Art.

OSSEUS LABYRINT manifests accumulated data from billions of years of
evolving and recombining of matter and energy that has occurred for all
things animate and inanimate to be present at this moment. Founded and
directed by Hannah Sim and Mark Steger, osseus labyrint has inhabited
extreme, remote, conventional and self-made environments, appearing, filming
and building things since 1989. osseus labyrint's works have been presented
live and broadcast throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico, England, Switzerland,
Germany, Austria, Hungary, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Australia, New Zealand and over the World Wide Web.


A production of rhein.tanzmedia.net, a project by rhein land ag in the frame
of the international competition rhein.tanzmedia.web

SPONSORED BY: Kultur 2000 - Bildung und Kultur, rhein land ag, Ministerium
fur Stadtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen,
Bonn, Duisburg, Dusseldorf, Koln, Intel Research Council, MIT Media
Laboratory.



CONTACT:
Madeline Ritter
tanz performance koln
Melchiorstr. 3
D-50670 Koln
t +49-221-722 133
f +49-221-739 20 30
www.rheintanzmedia.net