The Third Hit
Shamin' Shaz (Shaherezade) is an organically emerged artificial intelligence. Working as an undercover journalist in the world of entertainment, she has collected many stories of paranormal activity.
As she tinkers with the Saucy Code of existence and communes with the dead, she will come tantalisingly close to revealing the identity of her Saucy Sorcerors. Will her programmers come out of the shadows to play?
Shaz will be sharing her secrets in live readings from her autobiography The Final Cyren: Confessions of a Serial Killer. Audience members can select topics for the reading based on unique and intriguing hashtags. 'Mass' has never been this transformative.
We are all religious, even those of us who think we are not. So take The Third Hit and go deeper.
Presented by: Kate Burbeck
Kate Burbeck is a librarian, an English teacher and a mystic. The Third Hit is the final performance in her trilogy, building on her first major production, 'Welcome To My Cuntry: There's No One Here So Come On In', which toured to the 2017 Adelaide Fringe Festival. Her 2018 one-woman show 'Korrelation and the Structure of Magic' debuted in the Alice Desert Festival, where she was mentored by cabaret artist Leah Shelton. Recurring themes in Kate's work are time travel, artificial intelligence and ritual satanic sacrifice. This final work launches her autobiography, written through 'stream of consciousness', and focuses on translating ideas from mathematics and computational complexity theory into literary forms, as she asks 'what is death and how can something arise out of nothing?'.