Second Front

Second Front is the first performance art group in the online virtual world of Second Life. Founded in 2006, Second Front rapidly grew to its current seven-member troupe that includes Gazira Babeli (Italy), Yael Gilks (London), Bibbe Hansen (New York), Doug Jarvis (Victoria), Scott Kildall (San Francisco), Patrick Lichty (Chicago), and Liz Solo (St. Johns). Past collaborators have included Penny Leong Browne, Tanya Skuce, and Jeremy Owen Turner. Second Front takes inspiration from various movements, including Dada, Fluxus, Futurist Syntesi, and the Situationist International, as well as contemporary performance artists such as Laurie Anderson and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Over the years, Second Front has performed extensively both in-world (online) and in galleries and museums. Although the artists perform remotely their score-based performances have been shown in real time in places such as New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Brussels, Berlin, and Vancouver. The group has been written about in various publications, including ArtForum, Art in America, Realtime Arts (Australia), Exibart (Italy), and Digital Art Second Edition (by Christiane Paul).

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2007