Kartasi The Traveler
level 2 of the Kartasi saga
written devised directed
Deus ex machina for Kartasi
There’s this phantasmagoric production at the University of Texas at Dallas called Kartasi, right? It’s based in a world without past memory, divided by castes, where the lowly are controlled by the upper class using precious Memory and the Serum.The upper class (Overlords) control The Machine (omnipotent mechanical middlemen) through the use of "tubers" that dispense the Memories and Serum, keeping their inferiors subjugated until a mutant named Kartasi (Swahili for "blank page") come for the Outlands and turns the world on it edge. Nerd’s wet dream: Big O meets the Matrix.
Giant projections on screens around the there will accompany the live action using laser, animation, video games and digital imaging. Check out this impressive display of new theatrical expression at UTD.
The Dallas Observer
Rife Vallis
Origin Myth excerpt from Kartasi saga
an ongoing project to create a post-historical secular religion
Rife Vallis, where carcass bones of battle profane
In ancient was great weather with winds and smoke, much ferocity from der sky
The earth migrated, trees crying, animals swallowed, all defunct
Creation rolled, mar waves moved great und washed mucho malus death
The creation poles, nord and sud up and down replaced, here was there
All chaos confusion
Raining bring upon blaze the sky bleed and cook until no more breathing
Then great darkness and dust rust fall with long sad and still
That the Great Separation
Malus time
Time the orbis cilla flip, inside out with liquid ferocity
Time of the bleeding sol up there
Fever on the uppermost shapes rocks soft Water flows boil, ooze, sump
Siblings, humyuks then, went riming deep down into the cella for thousands endless Into paths far und deep they did keep, shiver smells und feels
Without exception locked, fearsome, wide eyes scared
Orbs and holes became wide und pushed for living in der cella
This times humyuks became
Hoi Polli Tunnel time understanding come, clans formulating
Physicals und mentals shaping different
Old school humyuks fade Hoi Polli lighting dark
Hoi Polli ate crawlies, slimes, and muks grew big
Hoi Polli ate humyuks fading
Several generations survive dark cool
Clans grown complex deep in der celli Rimmings long und far
Clash screams mucho
Cold rocks tunnel time
Not happy time ...(continued)