FREE | Sat. August 24 at 6:15 | Union Station Streetcar Stop | Public squared is a mixed reality, geolocated performance
public2, is a mixed reality, geolocated performance taking place at three Kansas City Streetcar stops. Choreographer Jane Gotch, in collaboration with videographer Ian Garrett, will create a site-specific virtual reality dance at each stop, and a single culminating live performance.
Public art acts like a microscope, directing attention towards overlooked and mundane locales within a city. The performer’s body becomes something between the artistic tool and the medium, embodying qualities of both camera and canvas. Through public performance, we generate a conceptual feedback loop by documenting and describing the environment’s history, architectural features, and inhabitants while simultaneously becoming new pieces of history and architecture.
public2 goes a step further and reimagines what “public space” is, and how it is created and accessed within a city. Gotch proposes that public space isn’t just a segment of land designated by a city planner, but it is a mindset shared by the inhabitants who occupy any public space—literally, the ground they are standing on. public2 gets people outside in the downtown core while accessing art and technology together.
This event is free and open to the public.
2019/08/24 - 2019/08/24
Union Station KC Streetcar Stop