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© Frank Sperling Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim are conceptual artists exploring urgent questions around the social value of art, digital labour, and the political potential of games. Mixing their backgrounds in performance, philosophy, psychology, and digital media, their collaborations have manifested in video games, participatory installations, digital archives, and card games. These include videocan, Canadian national video archive of performance, and culturecapital, a performing arts economy trading card game.  asses.masses, their major piece, is a custom video game designed to be played from beginning to end by a live audience, one person at a time. It is the eight hour epic story of a herd of unemployed donkeys trying to get their jobs back, all while navigating the perils of a post-Industrial society in which they’ve been made redundant. It has premiered in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Flemish, and Catalan at major festivals in the US, Canada, Argentina, Mexi...

Waiting for MACBETTU , July, 13rd 2024, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari-Sardinia ©  Mehmet Kerem Özel In the middle of summer, with the humid heat of July raging everywhere, I set off for a weekend in Cagliari, the capital of the island of Sardinia in the middle of the Mediterranean. My aim was to see a show that, since its premiere in March 2017, has had 350 performances around the world in seven years, from Peru to Japan, from Finland to China, from Azerbaijan to Bosnia-Herzegovina, from Russia to Brazil, as well as many cities in its home island of Sardinia and its home country of Italy. This show was MACBETTU, long after its last performance in 2022, returning from a one and a half month, four-stop tour of the Far East, and after many years in its own city for a single performance on 13 July 2024. Inspired by the carnival traditions of the island of Sardinia and translated into Limba, the local language of the island (the translation belongs to Giovanni Carroni, one of the actors in ...

Naturae - Armando Punzo  Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia © Andrea Avezzù  Although art lovers know Venice best for its art and architecture biennials and its film festival, La Biennale di Venezia, the organisation responsible for these three events, has also been organising theatre, dance and music festivals every year for years. Especially in the 70s, the Teatro Biennale hosted the most important international representatives of the performing arts of the time, from Robert Wilson to Peter Brook, from The Living Theatre to Jerzy Grotowski. In those years, Ariane Mnouchkine staged L'Âge d'or (The Golden Age) by a canal, John Cage and Merce Cunningham staged their works in Piazza San Marco and Brook in the courtyard of a monastery. Like the Dance and Music Biennials, the Teatro Biennale, instead of taking over the city as it did in the 1970s, has recently been using the 300-400 year old Italian Navy shipyard buildings in the monumental Arsenale area, which the Biennale di Venezi...