perfromance piece

the audience sits down tot a show, they have already texted into the system so the phone numbers are in the machine. They sit and downa nd are told to put hpone on vibrate.

The 'show' consists of a lecture from a prominent forward thinker of our time... the lecturer comes out and stands very still behind the podium... the audience then starts receiveing text messages that consist of having to say something or get up and walk out and other commands for what could happen in the space. The lines and pieces are all sent out to the people in the audience. They start working through the play, entertaining themselves in this orchetrsated script deliverd to cell phones... At the end of the show, the entire audience is back in place and the lecturer who has been frozen at the podium thanks everyone for coming and the lights go down. Fin.

Teh show asks questions of how fast our cellphones keep us moving and to what we pay attention to... it's literally taking time and stopping it... the actor on stage has come out and frozen, but in reality the actor will be moving in very slow motion... so the idea of time passing very slowly is being witnessed, but all these communications (txt messages) are happening in real time. Who need cameras to slow down time.