I will be performing at the Performance Studies International PSi#30 XXX – CRUZO, CRUISING, CROSSROADS, Fortaleza, Brazil!
3-in-1 Body Problem: El Traje dela Cuerpo Conquistada (for synopses of the trilogy) a.k.a. Olive as the Embodied Junction of Belongingness and Shifting Practices is a performance-installation tracing a performer’s navigation of theatre’s rupture during the pandemic. Panchang appears first in a series of improvised tableaux—unfinished costumes, found objects, and an anywhere-stage revealing the scramble for new forms. Maria Clara follows, fragmented and reclaimed inside a digital frame that exposes the seams of her colonial construction. Finally, Olive becomes the MonoVlogger-Madam Tseter, confronting the ephemerality of digital performance as platforms erase their own archives. Across these shifting bodies and screens, the trilogy argues for theatrical transformation, creative labor, and embodied survival in crisis.
a.k.a.
Just a Homeless MonoVlogger performing “live” livestreaming in Instituto de Cultura e Arte. Muita merda (“lots of shit,” Portuguese break a leg hahaha)!
Performance flow (15 minutes running time):
My performer’s body’s journey since the 2020 pandemic: theatre is “dead” > MonoVlog via Facebook Live > MonoVlog via Zoom > MonoVlog via Kumu Livestreaming app > MonoVlog via podcast > MonoVlog in PSi Hunger 2022 online > Trilogy of digital performances and MonoVlog under the University of the Philippines ECWRG grant > theatre is “back” (to what) > MonoVlog in PSi#30 XXX – CRUZO, CRUISING, CROSSROADS, Fortaleza, Brazil.
- MonoVlog – Read the synopses of the trilogy of digital performances here.
- Video with in-person performance – Self-reflexive account of my creative process as performer-dramaturg-and-all-the-roles-in-theatre by focusing on the aesthetics of flaw in El Cuerpo, and the microscopic-fragmented bodies in Fantasma
- MonoVlog – now that theatre is “back” (to what?!), what happens to the performer’s body? Is in-person MonoVlogging the way to go?
3-in-1 Body Problem in Variations
The Magdalena Project Feature: The Performer’s Body Since the Pandemic
The International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) 2024 Manila performance-lecture:
Learn more about the MonoVlog
Serquiña, Oscar T. 2023. “Emotional Weather Reports: Online Performance as Affective Practice in the MonoVlogs of Layeta Bucoy and Olivia Kristine Nieto.” Performance Research 28 (5): 14–22. doi:10.1080/13528165.2023.2321056.
Olive Nieto 