Fisher Center LAB International Festival
After This
Annie Dorsen
Work-in-Progress
December 4–6
Fisher Center LAB International Festival
December 4–6
In the spring of 1999, a computer science student at Cornell University set up a system to record every mention of “Y2K” or “millennium bug” across the four major broadcast networks. The result is an extraordinary accidental archive: hundreds of 15-minute clips of broadcast television from July 1999 through January 2000.
Since at least 2016, we have been struggling to understand how we got here. After This reckons with that question through an act of theatrical resurrection. Three performers give the archive an incantatory voice, working live against a torrent of broadcast footage. News anchors, laugh tracks, weather reports, game shows, and sitcoms: a whole world going about its business. It is a world that looks familiar but feels like a warning, asking what we choose to remember and what we are seduced into forgetting.
This presentation of After This is a work-in-progress showing.
Annie Dorsen Artist, Director
Ryan Holsopple Systems Design
Kate Howard Video Design
Ian Douglas-Moore Sound Design
Miriam Felton-Dansky Dramaturg
Natasha Katerinopoulos Producer
Hai-Ting Chinn
isabel crespo pardo
Jeff Gavett
Annie Dorsen is a MacArthur Fellowship-awarded director and writer who works at the intersection of algorithmic art and live performance. Her performances have been widely presented at theaters and festivals in the U.S. and internationally, including at BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the Sharjah Biennial, Festival d’Automne de Paris, Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, and the Holland Festival. She has written essays about art, culture, and technology for The Drama Review, Theatre Magazine, American Theater, Frakcija, and Performing Arts Journal (PAJ), among others. She is also a recent graduate of NYU School of Law, where she focused on tech law and public policy. Currently, she is the Guest Curator for Art and Technology at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
After This was commissioned by Fisher Center LAB and The Walker Art Center, and funded in part with a grant from the Simons Foundation.
Annie Dorsen would like to thank Josh Greenberg, Aoife Delaney, Colleen Werthmann, Teresa Huang, and Evan Fay Earle.
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