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May 31 – June 2, 2018
SF International Arts Festival & Qcc present
SOLO DATE
Southside, various times
Pao Chang Tsai

http://www.sfiaf.org/2018_pao_chang_tsai

Solo Date is written and performed by Pao-Chang Tsai. It tells the story of Ho-Nien, whose long-time lover and partner Alan is killed in an air crash.

Stricken with grief Ho-Nien attempts to reunite with Alan, but after a failed attempt to visit hell via an ancient Taoist ritual, Ho-Nien endeavours to reconstruct Alan utilizing artificial intelligence and by accessing his encrypted online data and social media records.

What follows is a surreal journey through a virtual underworld where Ho-Nien encounters digital gatekeepers, confronts social taboos and uncovers secrets from the past that tarnish the reunion and risk robbing Ho-Nien of his past.

Innovative, elegant and moving, Solo Date uses new media to explore loneliness and longing, desire and death, artificial intelligence and human loss and need. It also asks unsettling questions about online privacy, the ethics of re-inventing the dead and several other as-yet-to-be-articulated aspects of the digital frontier.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/184977949