Liz Solo is a performance artist, machinimator and musician exploring virtual worlds. Learn about current projects on this site. Read about her ongoing adventures in the Metaverse by visiting the Second Front
Liz Solo is a founding member the Second Front. Second Front is the pioneering performance art group in the online, avatar-based Virtual Reality world of Second Life. Second Front creates theatres of the absurd that challenge notions of virtual embodiment, online performance and the formation of virtual narrative.|
Second Front performing Crypt for Eyebeam Art and Technology Center
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About Second Front
Second Front is the first performance art group in the online virtual world of Second Life. Founded in 2006, Second Front quickly grew to its current seven-member troupe that includes Gazira Babeli (Italy), Yael Gilks/Fau Ferdinand (London), Bibbe Hansen/Bibbe Oh (New York), Doug Jarvis/Tran Spire (Victoria), Scott Kildall/Great Escape (San Francisco), Patrick Lichty/Man Michinaga (Chicago) and Liz Solo/lizsolo Mathilde (St. Johns).
Second Front has performed extensively both in-world and in galleries and museums. Though the artists perform remotely their performances have been shown live in New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Brussels, Berlin, Vancouver and many other cities. The group has been written about in publications including ArtForum, Art in America, Realtime Arts (Australia), Exibart (Italy) and Digital Art, Second Edition (by Christiane Paul).
Artist's Statement
Taking their influences from numerous sources, including Dada, Fluxus, Futurist Syntesi, the Situationist International and contemporary performance artists such as Laurie Anderson and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Second Front creates score-based performances and interventions that challenge notions of traditional performance, virtual embodiment and the culture of immateriality.
To learn more, check out the Second Front Online and the Second Front's Blog
Summer of Love 2.0
This is a machinima by Liz Solo made from documentation of Second Front's performances for Patrick Lichty's Summer of Love 2.0 installation and durational performance at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. July, 2009.
Song "The Summer of Love" by Fur Packed Action