Mind The Lag

Over the last year and a half, we all found ways to move our lives to the digital sphere, embracing the monumental and the mundane on the screen to co-exist with our pixelated relationship. During my MA at Central, I was always asking questions about our digital lives, ghosts in our rooms, zoom calls that sound more like a seance... We started devising our final graduate showcase along this line of enquiry and stumbled upon the word "meatSPACE", used by cyberpunks in early days of the internet to differentiate "real life" from cyberspace. A phrase they would use then would be "I'll meet you in the meatspace" which... Is starting to make a comeback to our present day lives as well.

For the performance, I took on the roles of technical director, deviser and performer. It wasn't easy juggling all these three responsibilities (and many more), but I had a stellar team consisting of the other half of meatSPACE Theatre – Laura Lounge – and a stellar team of collaborators from Central. I had a lot of learnings – personal, professional, technical – during the making of this show and it was truly a "risk" I feel good about (in hindsight, of course!). The show was performed in two live locations, wherein we used live cameras and Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) and audio/video filters to stream it live for an online audience at the same time.