Purge / by Brian Lobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lobel, Brian, author.

Series:

Oberon modern plays.

Oberon modern plays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Facebook (Electronic resource).

Performance art.

Social media--Drama.

Social media.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 pages)

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.

System Details:

text file

HTML

Summary:

Part game show, part love story, part lecture exploring modern friendships. Purge addresses where online friendship stops and real friendship begins. In 2010, Brian discovered that his deceased ex-boyfriend and best friend, Grant, had deleted him from Friendster (a pre-Facebook networking site), which neither had checked since they stopped dating in 2006. Although they had since re-'friended' in life (both virtually and non-virtually), it was the discovery of this past de-friending (and impossibility to 'reconnect' since Grant's death), which inspired Brian to create Purge in 2011. In 2011, Brian Lobel played a brutal game of friendship maintenance: over 5 days in cafés in both London and Kuopio, Finland, Brian gave strangers one minute to decide which of his 1300 Facebook friends to keep or delete. The deleting was real, the pace was maniacal, the results were final. 50 hours of performance, 800 emails from angry, amused and intrigued friends and over 2500 comments from people watching via live stream later, Purge is an interactive performance lecture exploring the process of, and fallout from purging and examines how we emotionally and socially interact with digital media.

Notes:

"This collection features the script of Purge, the stage show, alongside lots of extras including reflective essays, interviews with other artists who have performed Purge, additional angry emails from former Facebook friends, and much more".

ISBN:

9781350271586

1350271586

9781783193301

1783193301

OCLC:

1255459832