A 120-minute live telematic performance: Warren, in a remote green room, chroma-keyed in real time and projected into a lantern in the exhibition space—songs, comedy, juggling, storytelling, all original, all improvised live. A hidden camera in the gallery fed the audience back to a monitor in the green room: the performer watching the watchers, the circuit of vision made reciprocal without the audience's knowledge.
The lantern is the work's most beautiful formal choice. A lantern is a technology for carrying light through darkness—the hermit's lantern, the pilgrim's guide. Projecting the live body of the performer into it transforms the telematic transmission into something resembling the transportation of light itself.
A dilettante, recovered from its pejorative use, is one who approaches creative activity with delight rather than credential. The 120-minute duration is the argument: not a demonstration, a full evening—proof the telematic medium can sustain a complete performance relationship.
