Blender Love

Performance and Installation

Images, and Objects by Hillerbrand+Magsamen
Written by Kirk Lynn

Blender Love is a modern-day séance for Modern Day Appliances. In the form of interactive performance and live cinema to bring back our beloved obsolete gadgets, entertainment media devices and household appliances.  Video artists Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand will collaborate with playwright Kirk Lynn to create an interactive performance, live cinema, and viral media event where friends will be invited to bring in their treasured technologies that have passed away ranging from toasters to iPhones so that they may connect one last time.

The show focuses on the limits of certainty.  By examining our relationships to obsolete objects/technology such as blenders and PDA’s the audience examines its relationship to each other and how we interface in contemporary culture.  Blender Love tests our notions of the usefulness of both documentation (video and photographic evidence) and first-hand experience (the live performance) as proof.  Love Blender focuses our attention on the screen and then back to ourselves.

 The content of the show will be a series of séances in which audience members attempt to describe and reenact “lost ones” which they have owned or brought.  Incorporating elements of television reality shows, theater, online culture, and video art, Blender Love creates an interdisciplinary cross-media experience where the more the audience participates the more the show critically examines our relationship to each other.  The only thing that separates us is the technology between us.