VIRTUAL BLACK OUT

Experiments in the Future of Form

vNAF Virtual National Arts Festival supported collaboration between POPArt and Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival

virtual national arts festival; pop art; fak'ugesi 2020

As theatre’s around the country have turned out their lights and closed their doors for the safety of their audiences over the COVID pandemic, the National Arts Festival has not hesitated to find an online and digital solution to this year’s Festival.

‘Virtual Black Out: Experiments in the Future of Form’ takes a bold step into digital “space” making for virtual performance. Starting with experienced scenographers and digital arts in a collaboration to rethink space, set, light, location and time - where form leads the spark for new digital theatre making.

POPArt and Fakugesi Festival come together to bring into collaboration a stellar group of writers, directors, actors, scenographers and digital artists from Southern African and beyond to produce five short unique and diverse experiments in the future of form.

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And they wanted to contain the collapse

As they lament the changes brought about by the global pandemic from their homes, anxiety and media saturation erode the last bit of certainty they hold on to.

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my many mouths

A private view of a cosmic being playing. She dives, winds, twists and turns in space, inviting the voyeur, from time to time, for a deeper look into her caves and crevices where her organic and mineral counterparts float in their own mini-universes.

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Neighbours

Doctor Crackle and Miss Pop are neighbours. ‘What’s he building in there?’ There is an awful lot of banging and humdrum coming out of Doctor Crackle’s apartment.

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The Lonely Sailor Weather Report

An exploration of amphibious living. Anchored on stories of dissolving, shifting and stillness: far out to sea, where land-based networks begin to crackle and skip on the boundaries of their limited existence, our lonesome sailor sits, moderate at first, then rising slowly.

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When This Is Over...

A kaleidoscopic collaged video performance that brings five creatives into a visual and sonic playground of the playful and poetic. Can we fix a moment in time despite the rapid unravelling of myriad worlds, voices, streams, dreams? Can we remain real?

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About Fak'ugesi Festival

Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is at the forefront of Africa’s culture and technology scene. Explore what we stand for and how our journey evolves.

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