Hydra Poesis

The Network of Ensemble Theaters recently published Sam Fox's and my thoughts on remote collaboration, including a lesson plan for a workshop on interdisciplinary collaboration using everyday recording devices. Have a look!
"This is a critical moment in the culture, in the life and development of the internet, virtual embodiment, and the aforementioned ubiquity of handheld devices and webcams as a cultural phenomenon. [...] remote online collaboration following open source principles inherently challenge artistic authorship, even suggesting the destruction of the innate value of the material. Employing a “commons” ethos, we might treat our works with less reverence, and give over the rights to (conditionally) over-author our works, as a function of the possibility for decentralization of the collaboration structure." -AW & SF, 2014

NET/TEN Shareback: Allison Wyper - Ideas for Remote Collaboration | Network of Ensemble Theaters Allison Wyper (Los Angeles, CA) and Sam Fox, Director of Hydra Poesis (Australia), met in person for the first time at Hydra’s Perth studios to share their movement, media, and activist performance practices and formalize strategies for remote collaboration. The exchange took place over a week-long…

This Sunday in Calgary, Canada - a collaboration between Allison Wyper, Sam Fox and Terrance Houle, and featuring Perth performance artists Sete Tele and Ella Rose Trew in video premiere's at the MS:T Festival. This performance builds on Allison's residency at Hydra studios in August and investigations in internet/long-distance collaborative exchange.

M:ST * Mountain Standard Time Performative Arts Festival * M:ST ** Sibling Rivers The Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (M:ST) is a biennial festival that celebrates innovative and critically engaged performative art in the Southern Alberta region.

The script for PROMPTER has been shortlisted for the Premier's Book Awards.

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new work being made for M:ST performative art festival (Canada) with Allison Wyper and Terrance Houle this year, builds on work from last year's Hemi GS1 performance.

Sibling Rivers Hemi GS1 to M:ST performance festival | Hydra Poesis Sam Fox (Hydra, Perth), Allison Wyper (Los Angeles) and Terrance Houle (Blood Tribe, Calgary) are in the process of making a new performance of Sibling Rivers for the M:ST - Mountain Standard Time – performative art festival ( Sept 14, Calgary).