BIT Teatergarasjen

NORWEGIAN PREMIÉRE

KnockOff is a performance and installation which is a real-time, remake and free interpretation of a popular action movie, growing from the phenomena known in the movie industry as “Mockbuster”. Mockbusters are products made with less budget, B-list actors and less fabricated special effects than the huge productions in Hollywood using various elements that imitate the original movie.

Connecting Hollywood B-C-rate production of Counterfeit consumer goods, commonly called knock-offs, the live performance based on real-time training series with hired performers who use products as props triggers the production of movie on inserted screens in the space. The audience follows the making of the movie and finished product at the same time enabled by the simple use of technology used in film production.

Dora&Maya are one of 18 artists in the network apap-performing New Europe. For the premiere in Berlin they casted professional street-fighters.

D+M (Dora Budor + Maja Čule, Cro) are an artist duo that currently works and lives in New York. D+M’s work challenges viewers’ expectations around the intersecting spheres of technology and everyday life, and coming from a design background, is influenced by the methodology and psychology behind the creation of products and advertising. In their recent works they misguide technology or mix already existing formats of interaction, such as museum audio guides and tourist Segway Tours (Sp33dGuided Art Tours), hot stone treatments and use of mobile technology (Mobile Phone Treatments), or telephone survey made with gallery receptionists and DJ mix tape production (Easy Listening: Worldwide Gallery Traxx 2012). Their practice of datamoshing, dj-ing, and appropriation takes universal and corporate elements and behavioral patterns from contemporary environment and remixes them into experience which provides individual and personalized actuality for the viewer.

immaturus.no 

doraandmaja.com

The performance is co-produced by BIT Teatergarasjen. Presented in collaboration with Immaturus Student Theatre. This project is part of APAP and is supported by the EU.