Produced By: Puncture The Screen
iLove [DIGITAL]
- Genre:
- Digital Theatre
- Opens:
- 31 Jul 2022
- Times:
- 31 Jul, 12:00
Tickets no longer available.
Love is a splendid thing. It’s apparently all we need. So for the next six hours, Cupid will collect your love.
Sat in a digital landscape of screens, QLab and technicolor, Cupid will curate and craft a digital portrait of all things to do with love from their own and your stories, ranging from:
PASTS: Rapid, creative responses from Cupid’s ex lovers. From the Sixth Form crushes, the Blonde Bombshell never to be, the Vampire and the Prince Charming, they’ll trawl through the data of past relationships and add to the artwork with confessions of past love.
PRESENTS: Who do you love today? Cupid doesn’t love anyone atm (not like that) so they need your stories. Submit images, writings, videos or sounds that celebrate who you love today.
FUTURES: In a desperate hunt to find their own love, Cupid dives into the dating app scene, perhaps to find their one true love?
The artwork will be constructed over six hours live at the festival & will be streamed online via Zoom. Audiences can contribute in person or online by sharing their love stories to Cupid to be permanently captured and showcased in a technicolor digital celebration of romance.
“I love love and want to celebrate it in all I do. I recently spent an evening reliving my past relationships and how they shaped me into the person I am. And there was a euphoria that felt unmatched to something I’d felt before. This work fuses my skills in queer storytelling and video design in my first piece of digital art. I’ve been interested in what digital queerness and drag looks like and how I may perform that. The idea of iLove came from wanting to celebrate this part of me in a digital landscape that felt familiar and safe. iLove will be an uplifting, collaborative experience- they will have a fun encounter with a quirky, genderqueer cupid and see their story manifest into artwork.” Matt Powell
This event is part of Chronic Insanity’s data driven art and performance festival, Puncture The Screen, and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.