“X-Agent Destroy Monster Regimes”

Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY, Oct 23, 2020

X-Agent Destroy Monster Regimes is a multimedia performance work and web project produced with remixed text and redactions from the Mueller Report.

The larger performance piece loosely follows the narrative of Russian interference in US elections and social media from 2014-16 focusing on a fictionalized persona X-Agent—-whose name comes from the tool Russians used to hack DNC computers—-but ends with a call to action against “monster regimes.” At the heart of the project is a 12-part libretto/graphic score using text and redacted shapes remixed from the first half of the Report. Each section comprises a different movement of the work, engaging eclectic genres, moods and modes. The work was created by The Afield (Anthony Hawley & Rebecca Fischer) and premiered at Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY, Oct 23, 2020. Additional performers: Ilaria Hawley, Oriana Hawley

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