Category: Live Performance

UpsideDown World (Pearls for Pigs)

Upside Down World (Pearls for Pigs) is a hybrid reality performance piece for one live performer and two avatars. Video of the the live performance space is streamed into Second Life as the virtual performance space is projected onto the floor. Here are a series of photos by Justin Hall from the premiere performance at…
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February 17, 2012
Hybrid Concert with AOM

Performing Pauline Oliveros/Free Noyse’s “Hello Vancouver” with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and Real Life players. This performance was part of a series of demonstrations at the New Music Network in Montreal. See: http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#paradigms http://www.newmusicnetwork.ca/forum2012.e/seances.php#stretched
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January 22, 2012
InWorld opens this Weekend!

Roles 4 Women Theatre Company is proud to present the first show of its inaugural season – Liz Solo‘s multi-reality performance piece “InWorld”, live at the LSPU Hall Second Space,Thursday November 24 to Sunday November 27 at 8:30 PM. A stand up comedienne has given up “the life” and taken to gaming full time. She now lives alone with her…
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November 19, 2011
Slut Walk in WoW

The Third Faction recently returned from Turkey where we presented a series of workshops as part of the ISEA Istanbul conference. Our project “Demand Player Sovereignty” is a civil disobedience workshop focussing on creating interventions in the online MMORPG World of Warcraft and extending these virtual actions into the geophysical “real world”. During our workshops we…
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October 21, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Bus

Recently, in solidarity with OWS, I met up with associates in Blue Mars Lite to find and occupy Wall Street virtually. The event was organized by my friends Jeremy O. Turner and Jacquelene Drinkall. Blue Mars Lite uses Google Street View as its interface. So your avatar can walk around the streets of the world.…
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October 21, 2011
Night Gardening

Night Gardening by lizsolo Mathilde/Liz Solo and Fau Ferdinand/Yael Gilks 2010 Odyssey Performance Art Festival People and avatars from around the world garden simultaneously in the virtual world of Second Life and in a quiet backyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Starring Liz Solo, Fau Ferdinand, Patrick Lichty, Mike Kean, Anne Pickard and many avatars.…
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September 3, 2010
Melody Neglected at RCA

This month Resource Center for the Arts hosted a live reading of my newest play – Melody Neglected – in the freshly renovated LSPU Hall Second Space. This reading was the final part of the Write On program – an excellent annual playwright workshopping process, this year facilitated by Ed Riche. I had a real…
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May 7, 2010
Slide Show at Eastern Edge

I am stoked to have been contacted by Elly Clarke of the Clarke Gallery in Germany (via our mutual friend Scott Kildall – thanks Scott!) and asked to present my Slide Show – A Trip Around the World by Liz Solo – at the Eastern Edge Gallery on Saturday, May 8 at 3 PM. This…
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May 3, 2010
The Death of An Avatar

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_hcFTFOseI&w=560&h=315] On Valentines Day, 2010, the artist known as Wirxli Flimflam publicly took his own avatar’s life over his unrequited love for the artist known as SaveMe Oh. This machinima documents the sad event. To find out more see Wirlxi Flimflam’s Memorial Blog: http://www.wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com And SaveMe Oh’s Blog: http://www.savemeoh.wordpress.com
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April 3, 2010
This is Distorted

I am very proud to say the new punk-rock-comedy-hour This is Distorted premiered at this year’s Rock Can Roll Music and Media Festival. This is Distorted is a multi-media performance by Liz Solo, Sherri Levesque, Steve Abbott, Glenn Tizzard, Mike Kean and Anthony Brenton. The two night run took took place September 25 and 26th,…
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October 11, 2009
Second Front perform at Eyebeam/Release “Avvie Road”

The Second Front Performance Art Collective have just released our second DVD of machinima from our latest performance work. We celebrated with a performance at the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. Pictured above – Lizsolo inside the Crypt as Tut’s Mummy Zombie with Fau Ferdinand and Tran Spire also as mummies. The next picture is…
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October 10, 2009
Live Home Alien Birth

These photos are from the performance of “Live Home Alien Birth” that took place at the Alternator Centre for the Contemporary Arts in Kelowna B.C. in April 2009. The performance included appearances by Second Front and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. More documentation from this project coming soon. These photos by the amazing Bibbe Hansen of…
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June 25, 2009
Birth

More on the avatar body. My avatar has been pregnant. Several times. She has given birth to many creatures but in these images she is nursing her tiny avatar baby on Odyssey Island in Second Life. This theme of birth is both a part of the Machine I Am Project as well as being explored…
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January 31, 2009
Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

I have been having a great time working with the online orchestra – Avatar Orchestra Metaverse. Members participate from all over North America, Europe and beyond. We perform frequently – compositions created by members of the collective. We play the compositions on virtual instruments also designed by artists of the collective. I have been working…
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January 27, 2009