#Everybody All The Time – a performance installation

On Friday, November 1 during the First Friday Art Walk, Sarah Greenbaum will present her performance installation “#Everybody All The Time” at the ideaXfactory at 7:30 and 10:30 pm.

Greenbaum is a BFA Senior Dance Major at Missouri State University. For the project, she will be collaborating with Alec Brown, Jaime Daniels, Carmen Hartmann, Gavin Juckette, Drew Mittman, Kahrya Vaughn and Dara Vint.

During the performance the bodies and movements of the performers will be juxtaposed against computer graphics that represent their online presence, as an experimental expression of the both the  connections and differences between real personalities and on-line personas created through social media and other internet applications.

Between performances, Art of Space’s “Weaving Space” workshop experiments will be on exhibit. These studio constructions use thin wood slats to create nest-like enclosures and are a sneak preview of their upcoming larger December installation.

Greenbaum’s Artist Statement about her work follows:

“#EverybodyAllTheTime explores the experience of living simultaneously online and in the real world.

We live in a hyper-digital age that requires us to create various online profiles through which we present information about ourselves to masses of people in order to keep up academically, socially, and professionally. We edit and polish the information we share. We interact with others online as mediated versions of ourselves.

In this work, I juxtapose the performers’ flesh-and-bone, real-life selves with the polished personas they create for themselves on the Internet.

The work has two goals: first, to acknowledge that the way people portray themselves on the Internet is integral to the person they are in real life (and to how other people see them).

Second, the work strives to assert the importance of real-life connections between individuals as opposed to online social networking, since there are benefits to forming meaningful, real-life kinship which cannot be replicated through or replaced by Internet interaction.

Walk around. Explore. Take pictures. Talk to each other. Stand close to a performer, or watch several from further away. Enjoy, question, reflect.”