Talk Show Episode 1: Demo(Nstration)
Tim Tsang & Scarlett Kim
talk show is a spacetime for being yourself.
talk show is the first episode of a new monthly series at Automata, hosted by artists Tim Tsang & Scarlett Kim. Each month, Tim & Scarlett will invite guest(s) that they are sincerely curious about, and share five hours talking together at their pop-up green screen studio at Automata. Tim & Scarlett, the guests, and the audience try to get to know each other and be/become themselves by not-knowing together. For this pilot episode, demo(nstration), Tim and Scarlett will be their own guests.
Things We Know
The encounter(s)
People we want to get to know
Tim & Scarlett
Automata
Every month
Five hours
Physical audience
Green screens, photography lighting, stands
Cameras, projectors, monitors, media
Live-taping, virtual audience, post-production, archive, telematic hosting
Talk show signifiers (chairs, tables, mics, “the yellow couch,” etc.)
1) talk show is a talk show
2) talk show is not a talk show
3) talk show is a talk show
4) talk show + 4th wall
5)
Hypotheses/Questions
T+S being themselves is an engine for the guest(s) and the audiences to be themselves, and vice versa?
Being yourself involves the future self that is yourself, the self becoming self now, and the self having been self (I have in my notes Being Yourself: prerequisite - action - goal, but I can’t formulate this pre/per/post-formance into a sentence.)
Where is the site of the work? Where is the show?
How can you assess if you’re being yourself? Tim seems to be able to trust himself.
Tim will use 5walls, a conceptual system that allows him to be himself, and Scarlett will apply shifting paradigms?
Is media a given?
do we need more questions? :)
Not necssarily
But do you have other questions?
not really but i prob will havw some on the day of…
Should we get rid of this section?
no its valuable i think. i just dont have any questions :) its be cool to hear what ppl expect out of a talk show non-talk show
This event is free; no reservations necessary.
Enter and Exit freely between the hours of 3 pm and 8 pm on September 7.
Please bring food if you’d like, and we will also be sharing some snacks! This episode, we will have shinramyun together, among other things.
Episodes will be live-taped and presented on the Facebook page following the live event: https://www.facebook.com/talkshowtalkshowtalkshowtalkshowtalkshow
Note: You will be able to opt out of being filmed.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
TIM TSANG is a (performer) (performer). Constantly engaged in infinite play as an accumulative performance strategy, Tsang scripts friendly spaces (theoretical, physical) that invite uncertainty and perplexity. Often through over-identification and over-exposure toward the social, these spaces act as repositories for [critical thinking, contemplation, and escapism] in the context of [event, game, and concert].
timtsangtimtsang.com
SCARLETT KIM is a Seoul-born, Los Angeles-based theatre director and artist. Working across disciplines, mediums, and the globe, she uses performance as intimate exchange, survival ritual, and act of revolution. Recent projects: READY! SET! (Prague Quadrennial), TALENT SHOW (Love’s Remedies + The Reef), NOMADIC NARRATIVES (Heidi Duckler Dance + Large Shiva + CultureHub LA), THE END, THE END, THE END… (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), AGUANTE PICHIDANGUI (National Council of Culture & The Arts, Chile), and SURPLUS NOVEL (La MaMa Umbria). Director of The Mortuary, a laboratory for unclassifiable practices in life and art, and Artistic Associate with CultureHub LA, a global art + technology community. MFA in Directing, California Institute of the Arts. BA, University of Chicago. scarlettjkim.com
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