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I’ll be gone was a project in which two groups of students from different backgrounds and theatre traditions worked together with artist Peter Missotten to create a performance at the Maastricht Theatre School. In the project they explored virtual technologies as part of a larger project called The Virtual Body. In order to research the way in which virtuality was at stake in the project, a documentation of the working process was made. The documentation aims to discuss as well as embody issues that are also at stake in performance and virtuality – such as the relationship between real/non-real and live/non-live. Moreover, the documentation tries to take seriously questions about why, how and for whom one would want to maintain what to all intents and purposes has gone: I’ll be gone.

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    I’ll be gone was a project in which two groups of students from different backgrounds and theatre traditions worked together with artist Peter Missotten to create a performance at the Maastricht Theatre School. In the project they explored virtual technologies as part of a larger project called The Virtual Body. In order to research the way in which virtuality was at stake in the project, a documentation of the working process was made. The documentation aims to discuss as well as embody issues that are also at stake in performance and virtuality – such as the relationship between real/non-real and live/non-live. Moreover, the documentation tries to take seriously questions about why, how and for whom one would want to maintain what to all intents and purposes has gone: I’ll be gone.
  • Ruth Benschop - I'll be Gone Again: Documenting the Virtual Body - 2012
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