Liminal > Interrupt
Performed at the Metropolitan Art Studio - November 2000
Interrupt, was a retro-engineered multimedia performance installation and live experience where audiences, performers and technology could interact. Resisting the temptation to put the latest shiny new technology on display (not that our budget allowed much temptation), Interrupt explored the underside of progress - meltdown, misfire and miscommunication. Within the performance space, audiences participated in the operation of a mechanized, yet functioning dystopia where ‘high’ technology served the most crude ends. Moreover, Interrupt was about letting someone experience something they didn’t quite expect and then seeing how long they would play with it before they get bored again. Interrupt was directed and programmed by John Berendzen and created by over a dozen Liminal company members and invited artists.