Micha Cardenas: Collective Art Practice Research Group - Second Life Performance

You are invited to see one of the outcomes of the Collective Art Practice Research Group! After 10 weeks of talking to collectives from San Diego and Tijuana about collective practice, online public space and social engagement, the Collective Art Practice Research Group would like to share with you a performance at the intersection of the borderlands of Tijuana and San Diego and the virtual environment of Second Life.

This performance engages with the following questions:
- What are the borders of online public space? how do they relate to the borders of our "first life"?
- What are the relationships between borders and prisons? How are these separate but related modern features a part of the infrastructure that separates the global north from the global south?
- How do borders produce gender and how are those dynamics affected by the seeming gender freedom online public space inhabited by avatars? How is gender deviance perceived and discussed in online spaces, in prisons, in borders?
- Is synchronized dancing as fun in second life as it is in first life?

Sneak preview live performance in the main auditorium at Atkinson Hall at UCSD, Wednesday, June 4th, at 7pm. Directions at:
http://atkinsonhall.calit2.net
and also in Second Life, the SLURL will be posted at: http://sharingissexy.org/wiki/CollectivePracticeClass

Supported by UCIRA, CRCA, and UCSD Visual Arts Department

The Collective Art Practice Research Group is Jade Lantana, Matthew Riederer, Adelina Tancioco and Angelica Tolentino, facilitated by Micha Cárdenas.