4. Sad Lisa
(Showed actual 3D animated world during talk, here
is a screen shot:)
I’m going to bring up one of Purple Tears spaces called Sad Lisa, which is about a friend of hers who, after many years of drug and alcohol abuse, committed suicide. It uses the Cat Stevens song “Sad Lisa”. ( Sad Lisa Space: http://209.219.15.163/Onlive/sadlisa.olv - need traveler client to view).
The space: Sad Lisa Very lost woman then suicide. Stairs all going no-where. Looking out a window, a room with a lone chair spilled wine glass and pills.
This is not a singular piece of art work (although it surely works on that level) but a space that others come into and inter-relate with each other in. So she creates her narrative which can be thought of as a set in a movie or play. Then others in the community come into it and express themselves but they are coming in with there own personal narrative. She often comes in as a difference identity (not as Purple Tears) and in my view watches a unknown play evolve on her set. Truly blurring who is the author and who is the audience. Definitely Purple Tears’ personal narrative, but then added to and changed by the participants that arrive there with there own intertwining narratives. Then she might adapt it but most likely makes a new world/set for her friends - the “players” and continuing issues in her life in and out of OnLive.