10 Backwards
10
Backwards was a 70 minute performance combining live and pre-rendered
mixes of video projected either at end of a traverse stage. Toured throughout
the UK and in Europe during 1999, the performance used a narrative as
a way of looking at ideas of the future.
A woman travels ten years into the future. Within an hour of arrival
she is sucked back to the present bearing an illness in which she suffers
from non-stop deja vu. Amidst flash guns, video landscapes and early
techno, she sets about fighting her condition. A video documenting the
performance and CDROM which elaborates on the original ideas behind
the work are currently available.
Their latest production, 10 Backwards, is an exploration of deja vu... Most of us experience deja vu from time to time, but can only imagine what it must feel like if taken to an extreme reailsation. Forcing common-place speculation into a piece of brutal reality is what makes Blast Theory so exhilarating. Metro Life, 11 May 1999
