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2008 Artist Projects Recipients Jeff McMahon – Counter-Indications. The artist with collaborator Jacob Pinholster, a media designer, will create an installation-based performance using live and virtual actors to explore the nature of interrogation and disorientation. Through a “fake” intervention/exploration, the artists will investigate how a person can be guided, even coerced, into saying things he/she does not believe, seeing things he/she has not actually seen, and confessing when no confession is justified. This project will be a work of visceral theatre, placing live art into the center of social discourse. McMahon is a an assistant professor in the School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University, and Pinholster is an assistant professor of media design at Arizona State University. McMahon lives in Tempe. Panel Comments: The writing and staging in this project is really interesting and complex. The artists’ experimentation of interactive media is very current with national ideas in theatre and performance. Also, both artists have extensive experience and clear creative influences, which only reinforces for us that these artists are connected with current practice. Because of the all of these strengths, we anticipate that this project will be noticed outside of Arizona.
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