Production -Available for touring
Love TV
Created by Rebecca McIntosh
Store Room Theatre will be assisting Love TV at APAM in 2010 and with the expansion of the project into an extensive and interactive web platform that will compliment its live performance community engagement model.
More details at lovetv.com.au
Love TV Urban Screens video(click) by Rebecca McIntosh on youtube
What?
Over the past ten years I have been developing a body of interactive live performance/video artwork called Love TV. It is a temporary intervention into public life which creates a dynamic conversation between site, audience, and context exploring the most private conversations in the most public space.
Love TV is a hybrid performance set in a visual art installation (an intimate/ private space) that is interactive with a public space and directly addresses individuals to tell their story. This interaction or "interview" between my "guest" and myself in the guise as Aphrodite- The Goddess of Love is filmed and broadcast live to an audience (public domain).
Love TV breaks into the public realm in surprising ways, reaching people beyond traditional limitations of class, age, race and education it looks at celebrity, the truth, humanity, how we communicate and the iconic power of the television. Having conducted over a 1000 interviews across a decade, my unique approach to getting stories has made me a pioneer in urban screens media and a recognized citizen journalist.
In recent years the work has moved into a large scale outdoor format projecting on to public urban screens within festivals and events. The focus has evolved from immediate community in a specific club/bar or location to a broader community engagement so that the live presentation becomes a living social documentation of a place and it's people. The large outdoor screen reflects back to the street, its stories and it's past, highlighting that cities are more than glass and metal, they are memories and dreams and possibilities.
