SmartSmart
Artist: ADRIENNE WONG / SPIDERWEBSHOW PERFORMANCE (Vancouver)
Mainstage Presentation
January 24 @ 8:30pm, January 26 @ 1pm
Duration: 60 minutes
SmartSmart – SpiderWebShow Performance / Adrienne Wong
Photo by Adrienne Wong
Image description: Adrienne Wong wears a brown beanie, red glasses, a blue shirt, and white headphones. She is holding up a smart phone. The screen is the same image of Adirenne but smaller. This repeats and gets smaller until we can no longer see the image.
Take your phone to the theatre. Join Adrienne Wong for coffee, crafts, storytelling, and surprises. Leave your phone on.
SmartSmart combines audience participation and a modular script where the storytelling is predetermined, but the order is improvised based on you, the audience. The experience is a meditation on mediation.
Smartphones are one of many ‘modifications’ humans make to themselves in the name of advancement. Early cybernetic devices have ranged from contact lenses to cochlear implants. Now haptics on our phones remind us to drink water, notifications urge us to get enough sleep, and our senses are extended by a web of computers accessible from the pocket-sized terminals we tuck under our pillows at night. This is a new work that explores pervasive media and our relationships to our devices, how they extend our senses, and affect our relationships with other humans and ourselves.
Directed and Performed by: Adrienne Wong
Digital Designer: Andie Lloyd
Developer: Nicole Goertzen
Set Design by: Barbara Clayden
SmartSmart is developed through Theatre Replacement’s COLLIDER Artist Residency Program, a project-based incubator for new work that revolves around HOLD ON LET GO. An in-progress showing of SmartSmart was shared as part of 2023’s PushOFF program.
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts.
ADRIENNE WONG is Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow Performance, a company that interrogates the impact of digital disruption through art. She co-curates with Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) with Michael Wheeler and Marcel Stewart. Adrienne's artistic work straddles theatrical and digital spaces. Particular interests are in developing new work, and using theatre to explore participation, agency, and engagement with actors and audience alike. She was the inaugural artist in residence for CBC Radio's q. ‘Landline’ (co-created with Dustin Harvey) toured nationally and internationally in French and English. 'Me On The Map' (co-created with JD Derbyshire) continues to be adapted for young citizen designers. Adrienne has conducted workshops on creation practices for digital collaborators with NTS, UVic, UBC, Simon Fraser University, University of Calgary, Playwrights Guild of Scotland, and the Playwrights Guild of Canada, among others. Adrienne is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and lives in Victoria BC, with her spouse and two children.
Information for Presenters: Available for touring.
CONTACT
Margaret Evans
Instagram: @smartsmartdev