Forecasting is based on a collection of amateur videos from the biggest video sharing and watching website: YouTube.
Alone on stage, Barbara Matijević manipulates a laptop that broadcasts videos posted by anonymous users (there are no television and/or cinematographic clips) that meet the 1:1 scale criteria.
The performance establishes a space-time suspended between two parallel systems of perception: that of physical reality and that of the screen. Moving on stage with a laptop, Barbara Matijević models her body as an extension without continuity with the two-dimensional world of video images.
Forecasting gives an overview of the increasing role that digital tools have in the narration of Self and the collective construction of the Imaginary.
Opening night: 5 March 2011
In English with Hungarian and Romanian surtitles
Performed by Barbara Matijević
Cast and creative team
Duration: 50 minutes