Quarry is a collaborative work that uses technology to push the boundaries of live performance in ways impossible before the Internet. Quarry merges two real time events using video streamed live through the Internet—live dancers on stage in a theater in San Francisco and sculptor Richard Deutsch at work a hundred miles away. The piece is a collaboration between artists separated by great distance, viewed by both a live audience in the theater as well as a global audience experiencing the performance via a live Internet web cast. By streaming the video of Richard Deutsch in real time, the audience experiences the unpredictability of a live event with its concomitant surprises as well as accessing an artist working in a way that would otherwise be inaccessible to them.
