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"Jump Off This Building!" The Ethics of the Headphones in Remote Macao
[Thesis]
Peng, Hui
Hunter, Lindsay Brandon
State University of New York at Buffalo
2020
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M.A.
State University of New York at Buffalo
2020
Rimini Protokoll's Remote Macao (2017) is an immersive performance in which I participated as an audience-performer. There were no prepared actors in this piece. Around thirty paying audience members put on the headphones, wandered around downtown Macao guided by a disembodied voice in the headphones. As one of them, I committed to the voice, physically responded to it, and obeyed almost all the voice's directions until the end of Remote Macao. At the final location of Remote Macao, on the rooftop of a skyscraper, the voice released the ultimate order, "to jump off this building!" Obviously, nobody jumped. However, this "suicidal" order suggests a kind of disequilibrium between my commitment to the voice and the commitment return. In this essay, I examine this disequilibrium and the ethical problem regarding the final jump. My commitment to the voice derives primarily from my role as an "audience-performer" in the performance: the augmented involvement as an "audience member" and the physical engagement as an "performer." I argue that the headphones in Remote Macao are a technological subject who encompass a power of hailing. Ethically speaking, this subject could be dangerous because it requests potentially hazardous bodily responses. The headphones construct for the audience-performers a conceptual, imaginative space, in which the headphones seduce and compel the audience-performers to obey its command and to push them to the final dilemma in the name of collectivism. Considering the structure of this essay, first, I introduce my embodied experience as an audience-performer in Remote Macao. Second, inspired by Josephine Machon and Claire Bishop, I analyze the unbalance between the commitment and the commitment return. Third, I investigate the headphones as both an object and a subject by referencing Jennifer Parker-Starbuck and Robert Bernstein. Finally, in comparison to the malevolent authority in Stanley Milgram's social experiment, I examine the ethical problem inhabiting the headphones, and how it pushes the audience-performers to the final jumping in Remote Macao.
Audience-performer
Commitment
Ethics
Headphones
Immersive theater
Theater
Hunter, Lindsay Brandon
Peng, Hui
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