Tele was a live performance, the script for which was derived from a series of Sociodrama experiences I conducted in at SOHO20 Gallery with psychotherapist Dr. Nan Nally-Seif and a variety of participants. The issues explored in our sociodrama workshops related to increasing partisanship, the widening gap between liberal and conservative beliefs, and media.

Excerpts from the workshop are presented on TelePrompters and periodically read throughout the night by two performers as a way of further processing the original ideas through another layer of mediated performance and role playing.

Sociodrama is a dramatic play in which a group acts out assigned roles for the purpose of studying and remedying problems in a group.

Carl Moreno, originator of Sociodrama, coined the term “Tele” to describe the feeling of attraction or repulsion that emanates from and flows between most people, objects and animals on a minute-to-minute and day-to-day basis.