The Prompt is a conceptual social club under the influence of Futurist Variety Theater. Sessions held nightly November 11-15, 2009. Cues and propositions are offered each night in the form of conversation pieces, rules, performances and soundtracks, transforming this destination into a pressure cooker for ideas and intimacies. Curated by Kunstverein.

November 13th session:

RULES: Michael Portnoy

CONVERSATION PIECE: The Bruce High Quality Foundation

FILM: Marianne Vitale, Sylvie Fleury

PERFORMANCES: Joan Juliet Buck, Patrick Cleandenim, Joseph Grigely, Cassie Terman, Benjamin Heller

CURATORS/HOSTS: Michael Portnoy, Sarina Basta, Mary Rinebold, Jamie Hook

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For designer Martí Guixé, the word “mealing” describes the act of eating a meal, as well as the social concept of a relational meal. Mealing is a three-hour performance and meal-in-motion for approximately 80 people. Participants will be given ceramic glasses with “edible microsnacks” adhered to their surface and instructions for eating them while performing small gestures that will require each person to interact with their fellow diners.

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Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers present The World Series of ‘Tubing at Eyebeam. An augmented reality card game, players compete against one another by selecting and presenting their “best” YouTube video clips. The audience then choose their favorite videos with a cleverly conceived audience response system using laser pointers. By blurring the distinctions between performer, audience, and participant, their work builds upon the inherent qualities of shared culture as it exists online.

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How, why, and when did my child become an artist?  The goal of this social interaction is not to solve this mystery, but rather to explore the generational move backward as a creative forward-looking exercise.   Darius Miksys presents this conversation between parents of artists, hosted at e-flux project space. Curated by Raimundas Malasauskas, with production support by Sarah Demeuse.  Special thanks to PERFORMA’s Defne Ayas.

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Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupancic, and Miha Turšic take the audience on a 50 hour journey through the concepts of “theatre in zero-gravity”, at Eyebeam.

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Felicia Ballos and Amy Granat are both founding members of Cinema Zero in Brooklyn. Granat has worked on the restoration of the films of Maya Deren and has presented her films in New York and Europe. Ballos trained with Trisha Brown and Min Tanaka and has danced with Yvonne Rainer. Both have ties to extreme underground music. Curated by Liutauras Psibilskis.

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