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Screen Capture. Kristin McWharter
RARA

first performed on October 31, 2020
Hosted by Langer Over Dickie Gallery remotely at https://rara.technology
performed six times in 2020

KRISTIN MCWHARTER

Sound Design by Dav, Web Dev by KT Duffy and Vitalii Emelianov

Chicago, IL
kristinmcwharter@gmail.com
kristinmcwharter.com

RARA
KRISTIN MCWHARTER

“RARA” is a live streamed real-time motion capture performance featuring a lone cheerleader who perpetually hypes herself forward through looping stadiums in a dystopian future where football as we know it has collapsed. Looking at the rise of sports entertainment throughout the twentieth century, “RARA” builds upon the particular forms of storytelling embedded within the game of football. Tumbling narratives of achievement, redemption, progress and the unknowns of improvisation, chance, and limitation. Inspired by the cultural crockpot of stadiums, mascots, and chips and dips that fuse into a slurry of capitalistic machismo, “RARA” delves into the aesthetics of audience allegiance, superstition, hope, and cultural value. “RARA” playfully speculates on a reimagined future of sport and competitive entertainment through live digital performance and a keen eye on the rhetoric of motivation.