Martin
Martin Butler is a performance artist bridging a variety of disciplines. Between film, dance, theatre and visual arts, he explores the new dramatic that information and communication technologies
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1.how do you create intimacy with strangers..?
2.how do you take responsibility for people you don know...?
3. what happens when one person witnesses another....?
4.what happens when you
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How to make strangers smile?
4th of june in the milan metro
It was a typical over heated, frustrated 2.30pm on a very warm and over crowded milan metro, people minding their own business, old ladies, students, tourists, suited business men, all quietly and
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As a maker it has always been very important that I have or created a feeling of love with every person that I have worked with as a performer. With the idea of love, one can feel inspired,
… Love as the seventh course
The love solo's in B.O.B
"B.O.B" was a project whereby we invited 100 people per night for a seven course dinner, and for the seventh course they were offered love rather than cake.
How to Make a "LOVE" Solo
A Simple Guide
What you will need to begin with is:
Five to Seven Seasoned Performers
Five to Seven Plastic Chairs
A Rehearsal Space ( 8m x 8m at least)
An Openness to Explore
A Honest Response
Questionaire about strangers
Asking strangers how they deal with strangers.
"hello
how are you?
I hope you are well.
My name is Martin Butler and I'm busy collecting research for a new project that I'm asked to participate with in Holland about presence.
Im asking
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When reflecting upon how in the past I have worked with dancers and performers, I think one of the key elements for me regarding trust and being able to create work for and on another person is
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Working in the field of live performance, be it dance or theater in its many forms, compared to other arts disciplines is that the main difference in its practice is that you are reliant on other
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The Mauer Mob
10,000 people recreate the berlin wall through online networking
"Mauer Mob. 2009 - Recreating the Berlin Wall" was a large scale art project in the frame work of the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin.
The idea was to form on the
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10,000 people recreate the berlin wall through online networking
"Mauer Mob. 2009 - Recreating the Berlin Wall" was a large scale art project in the frame work of the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin.
The idea was to form on the
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"If I wasn't beautiful, would you still want to buy me?"
Special K has come out with numerous television commercials promoting their Special K diet plan.
Their latest ad features a modelesque woman sitting at the breakfast table, staring forlornly at
… "Giving money to the rich and beautiful is easier than giving it to the poor and ugly"
Twas on a dark and cloudy night.....
Ships that pass or crash in the night or the possibilty of playing with random internet chat roulette sites as a creative platform...
Looking for good people on chatroulette is like looking for a
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This summer i tried to experiment a little with how you could use these random chat sites as a possible creative platform.. as an anonymous theatrical experience, playing with fictitious characters,
… The Girlfriend Experience
Online multi-player game with real life avatars of flesh and blood
2007 - present
I presented four human avatars to play with. in a project in collaboration with Mediamatic.
You could log in at home with your character of choice, by just clicking on the
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An Avatars point of view by Roel Swanenberg aka Zachary (in the Girlfriend Experience)