A.L.I.C.E.: Performance as Research During a Pandemic

How is the continued COVID-19 pandemic interfering with the live art and entertainment industry? Embarking on performance as research and making art about world events while they occur instead of a reactive piece made after those events have ended, creates a particular kind of knowledge. The research and development process for the live, immersive performance, A.L.I.C.E., allowed for unique insights and experimentation with light, time, movement, text, costuming, context, alienation effects, liminality, mediation, auto-poetic feedback loops, technology, and the fourth wall. While the lessons learned about immersive performance are useful, just as important are observations about how we interact with technology, touch and other human beings during a devastating global health crisis