Festival of Live Art,Melbourne[br]A snapshot of Australian modern performance art and interactive theatre sees the use of phone apps, portable tablets and nonlinear storytellingAt the Festival of Live Art (Fola), and a work called The bare Self by Tanya Dickson and Michele Lee sees personal confessions about body identity delivered on an iPad,with stunning graphics and video. After listening to as many stories as you wish, you are led to a closed booth with a wall-sized mirror, and asked to undress,and observe and record your own. Tapping deep into potentially traumatic subject matter, The bare Self is an extremely confronting experience, and but after sobbing in the privacy of the booth I left feeling lighter and clearer.
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Source: theguardian.com