{"id":20702,"date":"2025-01-23T20:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20702"},"modified":"2025-01-23T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T22:25:33","slug":"in-the-tiktok-show-famehungry-all-the-worlds-an-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20702","title":{"rendered":"In the TikTok Show \u2018Famehungry,\u2019 All the World\u2019s an Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFamehungry,\u201d a show that\u2019s performed simultaneously for in-person and online crowds, comes to New York in the wake of the app\u2019s brief ban in the United States.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you get me to 20,000 likes, I\u2019ll do something amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in \u201cFamehungry,\u201d a TikTok-set existential crisis about being an entertainer in the digital age. Presented before a live crowd, it is also simultaneously livestreamed on the app.<\/p>\n

In Wednesday\u2019s show, Orwin performed tasks inspired by what she has seen on TikTok Live: eating in front of the camera, running on a treadmill, drinking from a Stanley Tumbler<\/a> and performing TikTok dances, all while describing her career in performance art.<\/p>\n

Whether Orwin\u2019s antics would be witnessed by audiences beyond SoHo Playhouse, where \u201cFamehungry\u201d is running until Feb. 8 after success at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, was an open question this weekend as the app was briefly banned in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe jeopardy in terms of the practicalities of the show isn\u2019t great, but also the sense of political jeopardy around the ban is really interesting for the work as well,\u201d Orwin said. \u201cIt\u2019s a strange situation to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Congress passed legislation last year to ban TikTok unless it was sold to a government-approved buyer, citing concerns that the Chinese government could gain access to sensitive user data and manipulate content on the app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.<\/p>\n

After the Supreme Court upheld the law last week, TikTok briefly went dark<\/a> before flickering back to life for many users when the incoming president, Donald J. Trump, indicated support for the app<\/a>. (After Trump\u2019s inauguration on Monday, he signed an executive order<\/a> stalling the ban for 75 days.)<\/p>\n

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\u201cFamehungry,\u201d a show that\u2019s performed simultaneously for in-person and online crowds, comes to New York in the wake of the app\u2019s brief ban in the United States.\u201cIf you get me to 20,000 likes, I\u2019ll do something amazing.\u201dThat is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in \u201cFamehungry,\u201d a TikTok-set existential crisis about being an entertainer in the digital age. Presented before a live crowd, it is also simultaneously livestreamed on the app.In Wednesday\u2019s show, Orwin performed tasks inspired by what she has seen on TikTok Live: eating in front of the camera, running on a treadmill, drinking from a Stanley Tumbler and performing TikTok dances, all while describing her career in performance art.Whether Orwin\u2019s antics would be witnessed by audiences beyond SoHo Playhouse, where \u201cFamehungry\u201d is running until Feb. 8 after success at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, was an open question this weekend as the app was briefly banned in the United States.\u201cThe jeopardy in terms of the practicalities of the show isn\u2019t great, but also the sense of political jeopardy around the ban is really interesting for the work as well,\u201d Orwin said. \u201cIt\u2019s a strange situation to be in.\u201dCongress passed legislation last year to ban TikTok unless it was sold to a government-approved buyer, citing concerns that the Chinese government could gain access to sensitive user data and manipulate content on the app, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.After the Supreme Court upheld the law last week, TikTok briefly went dark before flickering back to life for many users when the incoming president, Donald J. Trump, indicated support for the app. (After Trump\u2019s inauguration on Monday, he signed an executive order stalling the ban for 75 days.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20704,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20705,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702\/revisions\/20705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}