Deep-Fake 2: Nothing but the Truth

Co-Lab Show 02
October 17 & 18, 2024 | 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Studio T – SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Tickets: $5 at the door ("tap" and cash accepted, but exact change is expected for cash payments)

Students embarked on an investigation into the theme of Deep-fake, spanning technology, performance, and reality, seeking to question and challenge the concept of authenticity in live performance. By exploring the theme of Deep-Fake within performance contexts, students delved into the complexities of creating believable worlds and personas, utilizing technology, emotions, tone, sound, visuals, text and movement, exploring notions of authenticity and the imagined, inviting the audience to join them in exploring the intricate interplay between artifice, reality, and the realms of the imagined within live performance.

Students were given parameters, a small budget, and three to four weeks to rehearse and design for their work-in-progress showings to form a triptych of works to span the fall semester. The first two performances take place in Studio T and their last work will be a design-led installation-performances throughout the SCA building.  

The second showing in the triptych is titled Deep-Fake 2: Nothing but the Truth. What lengths do we go to as a society and as individuals to maintain or manipulate, create a deep-fake, a better version, a more sympathetic version, accepted version, in order to survive?  Or is the deep-fake protecting us as we are not allowed to be heard in the world we find ourselves in, or if our identity was revealed it would blow our cover, collapse what we have told yourself what was the truth, what and how do we survive living within this deep-fake and how long could we maintain it. Is the deep-fake around us and is it revealed? Are we in a simulation room, a training room, are we training to be  an astronaut, or are we not yet what we want to so desperately be,  a human being on a planet in the middle of nowhere?

MAKERS: Kherl Atienza, Megan Battad, Indah Del Bianco, Claire Brown, Calliope Chen, Saskia Cseh, Kirill Fertsman, Anatole Fossourier, Esme Johnson, Cléo Luna June, Dawn K., Vanessa Lefan, Lauren Moorhouse, Raha Fani Pakdel, Yuliia Piekh, Olympia Tomasta, Ryan Walsh, Vincent Wang

Production / Design Team  

• Stage Manager: Jae Gonzales
• Assistant Professor Theatre & Performance: Erika Latta
• Teacher Assistant: Jaeden Walton (MFA Candidate)
• Show Supervisor Faculty: Kyla Gardiner
• Lighting Designer & Programer: Darryl Strohan (GCAPES Resident Technician)
• Manager, Production & Events: Emily Neumann
• Technical Director: Ben Rogalsky
• GCAPES, Director: Miles Lavkulich
• Plastic Curtain Makers: Erika Latta, Stefani Infantino, Chloe Ny, Yuxiau (Eva) Zhou
• Student LX Crew: Stephanie Poon, Tina Shi, Amy Su
• Outside eyes: Claire  Brown, Calliope Chen, Dawn K.

Trigger and Content Warnings: Descriptions of sexual violence/assault partial nudity, flashing/strobing lights, extremely loud sounds, depictions of violence and gore.

Thank you: Alexandra Caprara, Peter Dickinson, Sara Van Gaalan, Miles Lavkulich, Samantha Walters

GROUPS

• Group 1: Bound
• Group 2: Quatrefoil Technologies
• Group 3: Something in the Way
• Group 4: Xenelasia