Joe Snape – You Are The Mole
Fredag 01.09 KL 22.40 – FRI INNGANG
You Are The Mole is a darkly comic look at the fallout of 2018-19's Cambridge Analytica data scandal. After a brief tour of the case’s details and their implications for social media companies and their users, the work joins Critical Media professor Dr. Lucy Oeiss in considering if this part of our lives has to be this way. Specifically, what is the role of social media users today? Are they really the authors of their actions online, or merely tracked, indexed, and steered remotely as they swirl along in streams for hire to advertisers with deep pockets at the pleasure of a Zuckerbergian empire? And could it have been any different?
Dr. Oeiss certainly thinks so and finds hope in a poem written half a century ago that foresaw a brighter future, free of the surveillance, falsehoods and trickery that characterise so much of today’s online experience. This performance is in English, and contains some language and images of a crude and violent nature; audience discretion advised.
Written by Joe Snape, and made with the help of Leonie Brandner, Jethro Cooke, Lena Longefay, Louise Snape, and Anna Louwerse. Co-produced by Sound and Music's Composer-Curator Programme, Help Musicians' Fusion Fund, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and Sage Gateshead's 2020-21 artist-in-residence programme. Further supported by the 2021 Paul Hamyln Foundation’s Award for Artists in Composition.
