Sandy Williams

In the last episode Flatman returns home… although having conquered a sort of immortality he has not conquered reality yet so the job is not yet finished. He still has to prove in Flatland that there are other worlds out there, spinning. And he still needs continuity. Loops are not enough. Knowing that the principle of reality and the principle of spectacle are the same he researches a formula to build the perfect machine of simultaneous dimensions, the “facts machine”…

Flatland III is the most flat performance of the 3, a zapping spectacle of noise, static and news…

Flatland II (To be is to be seen) is the second of three episodes that tell the tragic story of a Flatman that one day discovers that he is missing one dimension. In this second part, Flatman invents the “perfect” strategy to obtain eternity in the 3Dworld. He organizes an excursion to the world of illusion and terrorism and invites us to participate in it.

Flatman discovers that the machine that produces reality and the machine that produces spectacle are the same, and through the repetition of images, cabaret and circus numbers, Flatman keeps his audience watching him, and in this way, he keeps himself “real” in a 3D world, surrounded by surveillance cameras, mirrors and real time projections of himself.

For a moment the world bends, once more, to a parallel construction of that same world.
The construction of the illusionist and of the terrorist:
Theatre is terrorism and terrorism becomes theatre:
They both produce fiction in real time!

Flatman conquers immortality through a loop.
Flatland II is a multimedia, multifunctional and multitasked performance, where image, action, and sound, constantly report us to different possible realities/performances, both being the same.

Flatland – Part I (Going up, not North) is the first of three episodes that tell the tragic story of a Flatman since he has discovered a third dimension is missing in his life.

On this first part we can follow Flatman and his reflection through worlds of bi dimensionality and perspective until he finds out that his existence in the 3D world is possible if there are spectators looking at him. Happy with the discovery but unhappy with the dependency, Flatman organizes a strategy to conquer his tri dimensional immortality.”

Flatman – Part I is a multimedia performance where letters, images and small notes are projected on a 3mx4m book that you can read, ear and watch transforming and moving as the story goes.

There is a transformative event looming on the horizon of the 21st century. An event that could dramatically alter every institution and aspect of human life, ushering in a new stage of evolution: the Singularity, or the age of intelligent, self aware machines. In this future period the pace of technological change will be so rapid and its impact so deep that human life will be irreversibly transformed. The Singularity promises a merger of the biological and the technological; a world where we are still human but transcend our organic roots. Soon there will be no distinction between human and machine, between physical and virtual reality.

But if we are all to be uploaded and digitized, customized and upgraded, what becomes of the ‘us’ now? The simple, the irrational, the emotional, the distressed? What of our meat-only bodies equipped with slow speech and language, our bodies that tire and wear?

Everything Happens So Much is a piece that rests in the tension between our raw, flawed and unfinished human natures and the pristine potential of a totally digitized destiny. A space where bodies and words, movement and spoken text merge as we stumble towards the creation of a future that may already be assured.