Group members: Rushali, Oren and Steph
Privacy is about boundaries and performativity.
Privacy is about the tension between the desire for connection and the risks of exposing your self.
Privacy is about the tension between the desire for connection and the risks of exposing your self. We’ve created technologies to help us connect with others, but these same technologies also track, record, store and share us (and our data) with others. When we’re confronted with the exposure of our “private” data, we’re forced to acknowledge that we’ve implicitly given consent to systems that we don’t fully understand or agree with. Privacy uses interaction to give each audience member this visceral experience in an unexpected environment.
Fuschs Response:
- Interior spaces (apartment, diner, cab, psychiatrist’s office) feel tight and constrained, but also sparse. But there’s a sense of fall: chilly but not cold, drizzly rain but not snow.
- Time moves forward in fits and starts; it’s jerky, jolty, unpredictable, uncontrollable.
- The mood is anxious but darkly humorous.
- The social world is dominated by many different yet fleeting characters which revolve around a central figure. He is at the center of the world. The ex is always implicitly there, an absence that’s felt.
- The audience begins as observers but becomes characters themselves within the play.