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guest house
"Can
you tell me about a room?"
"What happened there?"
For Guest House, the group's first touring project, Uninvited Guests
were commissioned to explore the interface between live presence
and digital media. Using performance and computer generated animation,
Guest House took the spectator on a tour of an "impossible building"
composed of rooms and events drawn from others' memories. Everything
you saw and heard in Guest House was recorded in a series of interviews
with friends and strangers:
Click here for a detailed
overview of the Guest House project and information about the
Guest House CD-ROM.
There is a slideshow
featuring the key scenes of Guest House.
Click
on one of the following links to access critical texts written in
reaction to the Guest House project:
'voyeuristic,
intrusive and illicit, the group claim to be suffering from a kind
of amnesia which forces them to live their lives through others.'
(Lena Corner, i-D Magazine)
'an intriguing, subtle and complex exploration of reality and
our tenuous hold on it, particularly when faced with the potential
of other realities offered by new technology ... I enjoyed this
performance immensely. It had the authentic feel of new and innovative
work.'
(Paul Goddard, South West Arts Live Art Officer)
Neil
Jenkins created a web-based re-staging of Guest House in the form
of a popular memory game, which is accessible at http://www.da2.org.uk/guesthouse.
Guest
House was produced by Arnolfini
Live and DA2,
the Digital Arts Development Agency, and premiered at Arnolfini,
October 1999 and toured to Dartington Arts, Devon, England and eXpo'99,
part of the NOW Festival in Nottingham.
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