FEED
FEED was an original devised work conceived and directed by Alistair Debling. The multimedia performance took place within a simple scrim and fabric structure designed by Connor Cook and Alistair Debling, allowing for two-channel live-feed rear projection and single-channel front projection. Sam Wolk designed the four-channel audio landscape, using Max/MSP software to process sources ranging from Rihanna songs to the iMac start-up sound. The show's total running time was 55 minutes.
As a company, our goal was to develop new strategies for staging digital space in three dimensions while interrogating the ways in which we simultaneously consume and produce content in a hungry information economy. The ensemble brought the diversity of their own online experiences - filtered by age, race, and gender - into the rehearsal room as source material. The outcome was a production that brought to light the ways in which online environments might liberate us from the confines of identity, while laying bare the IRL consequences of allowing unchecked toxic cultures to spill back offline. What does a 54-year-old mother have in common with a student in China? Can intimacy be consensual when it's anonymous? How might the politics of a white feminist porn actress be inscribed in the lived experience of a young African-American woman? Who is responsible for rape culture?
Alistair Debling
Reva Nohria
Connor Cook and Alistair Debling
Daniel Prosky and Alistair Debling
Sam Wolk
Connor Cook
Yinka Ogunbiyi
Director
Producer
Scenography
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Projection Design
Stage Manager
Ensemble
Victoria Goodhart
Yilun Li
Andrew Miner
Elizabeth O'Donnell
Emily Oliviera
Jumai Yusuf
Peng Zhu
DOCUMENTATION IMAGES AND AUDIO:
"Like I'm the only one that's in command. 'Cause I'm the only one who understands. How to make you feel like a man. Only girl in the world."
How old are you?
Where are you from?
How long have you been in the adult business?
Eighteen
I’m originally from San Diego.
This is my first video actually.
"I am so grateful for you guys. I honestly love you so much. I love all of you. Thank you for subscribing to my channel."