Bag Lady 2.0 by Nancy Mauro-Flude.
Technical assistance and programming by Marko (MAD) @ worm
medium: live performance installation_webcast / embedded streaming bag with antennae; live audio, color. continuous.
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Try out 28 June 2008, at make your mark as a part of the Patching Zone CultuurLokaal Project

Nancy Mauro-Flude, sistero.org
Bag Lady 2.0
Nancy Mauro-Flude, sistero.org
Here we see "Carla Aulaulu selling information and porn out of her wicker handbag...noiry underworld milieu ..."Gods of the Plague/Götter der Pest (1970).
*Baglady 2.0* is a performance with a customised electronic performance tool, a bag with an antenna and an embedded board, programmed for live wireless broadcasting sound, digital images [video] and text. This Data can also be mapped via GPS to the location where collection takes place. In a recent article in Artforum, "Domesticity at War: Beatriz Colomina and Homi K Bhabha in Conversation" (Summer 2007, pp. 442-447), Colomina and Bhabha explore how the mediations of public and private in the context of war are domesticated and inform developments in fashion, design and architecture. Once again sister0 emerges from the undewater databasethis time as bag lady. She lives in the wreckage of the new dark ages. In the true spirit of a bricoleur she inherits neo-liberal capitalist waste and wanders through its discarded wardrobe thrown into the streets, transforms it and plays with it. But instead of collecting material items, she is a hunter-gatherer of ephemeral moments. She carries a bag with an antenne, and embedded board that catptures these and transmits this to a server... MORE INFORMATION - technical conceptual etc.