Avatar Body Collision

The Colliders are four women who met online in 2001 and formed Avatar Body Collision in 2002. We are a collaborative, globally distributed performance troupe who live (mostly) in London, Helsinki, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and cyberspace. We devise and rehearse online using chat software that is cross-platform and free to download.
	Come & Go Having never performed an existing script before, the Colliders thought it was time to give it a go, and chose Samuel Beckett's short play Come & Go. Come & Go will be remounted in December 2012 for the retrospective of past festival shows at the 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance; click here for dates and times. The show was first performed at the 070707 UpStage Festival.
	Belonging Belonging - a meditation on self is online performance with audience participation. It was projected as part of the Intimacy seminar in Goldsmiths, London, 7 Dec. 2007. The show premiered at the HTMlles festival in Montreal, on 17 October 2007, and will also be accessible to online audiences.
	Familiar Features Put yourself in the Picture with our current work in progress, Familiar Features. The last showing was part of the Performance Art Series at the Dunedin Fringe Festival, on 7 October 2006 at the Blue Oyster Gallery and also online.
	Trip the Light Fantastic! Avatar Body Collision were invited to participate in SCANZ, a two-week new media workshop and residency in New Plymouth, New Zealand, 3-16 July 2006. This was to be the first ever real life meeting of the four globally dispersed Colliders - however things didn't go quite as smoothly as we planned! Read all about it on our blog of the journey: Trip the Light Fantastic! ...
	DTN2 The first cyberformance using UpStage, brought to you live from Machinista Offline Festival , May 9, 2004. Visit the DTN2 page for images and to read the complete performance log.
	Lagging with the Lololols Investigations into Distributed Practices of Goddess Worship in Extreme Internet Cultures. Virtual Minds Congress, Bremen, Germany, 12 March 2004
	Dissension Convention Three of the Colliders colluded with Bea Gibson in the Furtherfield Visitors' Studio for the Dissension Convention, in conjunction with Postmasters Gallery, NYC, on Tuesday 31 August. The Dissension Convention was four days of live online audio-visual jamming as part of the artistic protests against the USA Republican party's national convention.
	Dress The Nation Avatar Body Collision joined the Lysistrata Project, an international theatrical protest against war. Four performances were given over a 12 hour period on March 3-4 2003, online, in the Palace.
	s w i m - an exercise in remote intimacy A collage of immersive images, splashy flirtations, wet moments and deep encounters between fleshy cyber bodies that delves into the possibilities and problems of intimacy without physical proximity. Presented at /ect (Belgrade, July 04), City of Women Festival (Ljubljana, October 03), Magdalena Australia (Brisbane, April 03), ANET Festival (Belgrade, Dec 02) and Medi@terra (Athens, December 02).
	Screen Save Her A comic book techno-noir, presented at the 12-12 Time-based Media Festival, Cardiff, Wales, 18 May 2002 and at "Roehampton at Riverside", Riverside Studios, London, 21 May 2002.
	the[abc]experiment A research project into the meeting points of cyberformance and theatre, and the event from which Avatar Body Collision was born. Presented at the 2002 New Zealand Fringe Festival, BATS Theatre, Wellington, 15-16 February 2002.