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Purge (Paperback)
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Purge (Paperback)
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
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List price R369
Loot Price R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
You Save R94 (25%)
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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 cafes 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.
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