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Posted on June 23, 2009 by webmistress |

/hug

This month Liz Solo has been concentrating on the Third Faction collaboration and the presentation of the /hug project. /hug is engaged in providing humanitarian aid and cross-factional assistance to avatars in the online MMORPG World of Warcraft. Documentation from the work of /hug is currently being featured as part of the "WoW Emergent Media Phenomenon" exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna California.
"WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon explores various forms of cultural production based on World of Warcraft in particular and on gaming in general. While surveying Warcraft's Fifteen-year history, the exhibition looks at artistic practices that have been influenced by game culture. The actual works by the producer of World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment, provide a starting point and reference."
visit the Laguna Art Museum to find out more about the exhibit. Visit Third Faction online to find out more about the /hug project.

To view one of the Third Faction's Instructional videos - made by liz solo with script by Thomas Asmuth and starring Third Faction members - please visit Liz Solo on blip.tv

Third Faction Instructional Video


Live Birth at Alternator Centre

photo above - Midwife Bibbe cares for alien newborn. photo by Bibbe Hansen/Bibbe Oh

Liz Solo has just closed a gallery installation at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, British Columbia. "Live Home Alien Birth" (or The Birth of the World) is a video installation and live online performance. Liz was thrilled to present her work alongside of Australian artist Mary Ann (Mez) Breeze. Liz and Mez created two unique performances that existed within the mainstream virtual world of Second Life. The curatorial theme behind these two performances explored the qualitative properties of being “inhuman”, “alien” or “other” in a virtual world.

In "birth" - after exploring the clinics and pregnancy packages offered by various establishments in the virtual world, Liz decided on a Home Birth. Little did she know that she was carrying multiples! The birth/performance took place on Odyssey Island in Second Life and live in the gallery at Kelowna in April 2009. Liz relied on support and coaching from the live audience and her collaborators Second Front and – the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse as she labored and delivered her virtual children at home. The virtual performance produced residue that was exhibited throughout the duration of the exhibition at the Alternator Gallery. Show curated by Jeremy Owen Turner. Stay tuned for video documentation, coming soon. Find out more and see some great images of the event by Bibbe Hansen/Bibbe Oh on Liz Solo's Machine I Am Blog

Arts and Letters

Liz Solo wins in the Dramatic Script category at the 2009 Arts and Letters Awards for her original screenplay Machine.

Her new stage play Melody Neglected is currently being developed through Resource Centre for the Arts' Playwrights Development Workshop Program, facilitated this year by Edward Riche. Watch for live readings from "Melody Neglected" coming in September 2009, produced by R.C.A.

Both of these projects were developed through the programs of Roles 4 Women Theatre Company

"alien" release

Meanwhile Liz is promoting her new solo CD "alien" and gearing up for national tour dates in the coming months. Hear selected MP3s by clicking the MP3s Link and Stay tuned here for details on show dates and releases as they are confirmed.

Here is an excerpt from the most recent review of "alien", from The Scope in St. John's, Newfoundland:
Liz Solo's voice is equal parts bitch-goddess and girlish fragility.. her songs are of loss, forgiveness, frustration, scars, bruises, love and the universe. Instrumentation on "alien" ranges from sweet, delicate layering to thick electric rawk. The depths of downtown St. John's and the heights of outer space meet here".
Liz's Cd is available at all of her live shows and very select retail including Fred's Records, The Travel Bug and The Reject Room in St. John's. Downloads available soon on iTunes through Rock Can Roll Independent.

alien features 14 original tracks recorded at Rock Can Roll Studios during the summer and Fall of 2007. Recorded and mixed by Liz Solo, Steve Abbott and Mike Kean. Liz has many guest players on this recording including her compandres from the Lizband and the Black Bags - Marcel Levandier (Lizband, Black Bags), Mike Kean (LIzband, Black Bags), Brian Downton (Lizband, ABNT) and others - Luke Power (Idlers), Steve Abbott (Geinus, Local Tough), Colleen Power (Collen Power Band), Sam Hall (The Sketch), Matt Wall (Local Tough) and Alex Pierson (Geinus, Pathological Lovers). Mastered by Ron Anonsen. Photography by Rhonda Pelley. Layout design by Sarah Hansen. Available soon on iTunes.

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