Mimic Mass at Next Wave in March

Mimic Mass is performing 'Stationary' as part of the 2006 Next Wave Festival in Melbourne.

Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested in 45 minutes of live voice, multi-channel video and electronic processing in a disused CBD basement.

Happening at the tail end of the festival, opening night on the 30th March. Tickets also available at the door but capacity is limited so bookings are recommended.
Hope to see you there,

Nigel Brown, Sarah Rodigari, Madeleine Hodge, Que Nguyen and Benny Woo.

www.mimicmass.com
info@mimicmass.com

RMIT Gateway House, Basement,
459 Swanston Street,Melbourne
30 March - 8 April (Thursdays - Sundays only)
8.30pm
$15/$12
Bookings: 1300 727 432 or www.nextwave.org.au

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The office is a site of desired functionality and productivity. It is also the day to day: the human level of large-scale business empires. The tension between profit driven efficiency and inherent human messiness has forced the upper levels of corporations to seek ways of standardising and rationalising human output- the result is the technological network.

Accepting nothing but quantifiable data, digital networks remove the undesirable variants in a human’s daily activities. ‘Perhaps, if…’ becomes ‘yes’ or ‘no’. By reducing people’s work to digital data streams, the large scale impossible becomes manageable.

In Stationary, Mimic Mass will present a network in motion.

By virtue of its existence, this department must surely have a purpose. There are people engaged in constant activity; vocalists provide input for digital processes, others work behind computer screens with audio equipment, video is projected onto the walls. However, the purpose is unclear.

Further viewing confirms that they toil not for commercial gain but simply to justify their existence. Deprived of a mission statement to drive them forward, they have become the inverted organization that creates output by reflecting on itself.

If nothing else, this department must simply continue creating output to feed into the network.