Gray Area Grand Theater: Plural Prototypes – Exhibition Opening Party

A special presentation of CripTech Metaverse Prototypes, C/Change Projects,Decentralized Web Artworks, and live performances.

Get access to our performances, conference talks, and exhibition with the Gray Area Festival Pass, or attend each night of performances with individual tickets.

Gray Area Festival 2023 Performances

Nat Decker w/ Jules Chimes Gårder
Sammie Veeler

Thursday, October 19, 2023
Doors: 7pm

Performances: 8pm – 10pm

Our performances will be live-captioned, but there will be no ASL interpreter on site. Access doulas will be on site to facilitate fantastic experiences for all attendees.

View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at festival@grayarea.org with any accommodation requests.

Indoors event

Standing Program, with many comfortable and accessible seating options available

All Ages

N95 Mask Required

For Plural Prototypes, Gray Area is pleased to present a special presentation of artworks from across our prototype programs. Join us for an opening celebration, showcasing accessible metaverse prototypes in VR, historic artworks exploring concepts at the core of the decentralized web movement, and video presentations of cultural communications projects.

Representing the CripTech Incubator, C/Change Program, and Open Source Decentralized Web Curriculum, this exhibit offers multiple access points to introduce audiences to the innovative ideas, methods, and outputs centering our approach to Plural Prototyping.

This opening event will feature two captivating performances that expand upon the themes of access, inclusion, and communication.

Dead Name – Sammie Veeler

Dead Name is an ongoing multimedia performance project started in October 2022 through a commission by Octobre Numerique Faire Monde and the Tezos Foundation. Each performance in this series is unique, published as an essay, documented with audio, and archived in a persistent network of virtual worlds on New Art City. Dead Name conducts poetic performances of expertise and ignorance, mapping the temporal disjunction of gender transition onto the production of collective histories online.

Assembling Intimacy – Nat Decker with Jules Chimes Gårder

Assembling Intimacy is a multimedia performance by Nat Decker. and Jules Chimes Garder – reenacts the repetitive assembly and disassembly of Nat’s mobility scooter. By compressing and mirroring the muscle memory of everyday actions, they demonstrate how seemingly simple routines of care can emerge as significant forms of intimacy. Nat develops their sensorial relationship to touch as someone who’s embodiment expands to the plastic and metal mobility objects frequently maneuvered by the hands of others. Extracorporeal touch is felt, and distinctly so when generating what Mia Mingus describes as ‘Access Intimacy,’ or the closeness which results from access needs being met and understood / a certain feeling of safety and ease with another within an ableist paradigm.

This event will be accessible to guests in line with our overall accessibility guidelines for Gray Area Festival. Our performances will be live-captioned, but there will be no ASL interpreter on site. Access doulas will be on site to facilitate fantastic experiences for all attendees.

Visit our FAQ page to read all of our access considerations. If you have further questions, access requests, or concerns, please write to festival@grayarea.org.