Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited
#2- www.google.com
Ursula Endlicher
Saturday, October 3, 8pm
$10
Image: Ursula Endlicher
With google.com Ursula Endlicher closes her ten-part circle of "Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited". This live performance series, which utilizes Web Code as choreography, will include dancers, performers, the audience, and the artist - right on stage.
The source code of google.com - its HTML tags - are interpreted live on stage into new dance movements, which are immediately translated into text-based descriptions and then stored online into the html-movement-library. This information is reused on stage as new instruction material. As the data performance progresses, more html-movements are developed, stored and altered by the participants. The user (=the audience) takes an active role in the performance.
Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited
Endlicher's piece takes place at the intersection of the organic and the inorganic, human and machine. --Alexandra Boutros, Furtherfield
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ursula Endlicher's work resides on the intersection of Internet, performance and multi-media installation. Since 1994 the Internet has an impact on her practice where she bridges the Web and physical reality. Her focus lies in analyzing the social and structural components of the Web while translating its hidden architectures and languages - such as HTML - into choreography for performances, into layouts for visualizations, installations or objects, or into notation for music.
Most recently she showed her work - a new part of the performance series "Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited" (www.facebook.com) - at Light Industry in Brookyln, part of "Theater of Code", curated by Christiane Paul. Endlicher showed her work also at Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich, Switzerland, at Gallery Dana Charkasi in Vienna, Austria, at Quartier21/Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria, at BM-Suma Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul, Turkey, at Upgrade!Berlin in Germany, at Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, and at Artists Space in New York. She participated in the Performance Mix Festival at the LMCC Swing Space@Seaport, New York, and at theMULTIPLACE network culture festival in Slovakia. Her work is included in the ursula blicke videoarchiv at Kunsthalle Wien, and has been featured on Furtherfield.org.
Endlicher's recent projects include Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited (2006-09), a ten-part Live/Web performance series that utilizes Web Code as choreography. This series as well as the project html_butoh, a web-based participatory performance commissioned by Turbulence.org in 2007, are built on the html-movement-library, a database for small video clips enacting the html language through movement. She created Website Impersonations: The Amazons (.at versus .com), an interactive multi-media installation with real-time web-feed navigable via the "mouse-chair" for which she received a production grant by the Austrian Cultural Forum NYin 2006. A presentation of her web works including Famous For One Spam was commissioned by the Whitney Museum, for artport's Gate Pages in 2004. Web Performer 1.0 was among the first net art works included into Rhizome's ArtBase in 1999. She produced her very first piece for the Internet - "Left/Right" - for The Thing Vienna BBS in 1994.
Born in Vienna, Austria, she has lived and worked in New York City since 1993.
CPR's programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, as well as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
