GA Winter 22 ALTER_VERSE

This is a creative documentation and digital interpretation the live performance experience that took place on March 2nd & 3rd at Gray Area’s 2022 Spring Artist Showcase.

ALTER_VERSE is a contemporary altar to the universe and its expansion into digital dimensions. A space to help us transition from the physical into the digital with intention. To reflect upon the metaverse’s significance within our evolutionary journey. A participatory one-on-one experience where performance must be earned.

Through video art, video mapping, and data entry this work explores our transition into the metaverse through journey, ritual, story, and offering. Audience participants were required to move through trials that tested their willingness to engage with the performing artist.

Upon failure of said trials, the participant was asked to leave the secluded installation room, where the performance would have taken place. Upon completion of all trials, the participant experienced a spoken word poem written and performed by the artist.

Before leaving, audience members gave a verbal offering in response to the question “What will you let escape from your reality, what will you release?”. Their response was numerically recorded via pen and paper. They then received someone else’s response by choosing a number associated with the previous offerings given.

In this digital documentation, there is an offerings portal where you too can receive an offering. By following the link attached to the portal you will see a drawn threshold with words flashing with in it. These words are the same response offerings given during the live performance. Press your spacebar to receive someone’s real response at random.