I advertized this installation with a carnival type poster stating that there would be daily performances...little did the viewers know who that performer would be...
The viewer enters a room through a curtain, and then takes a step up through a second curtain. There is a harsh light in the viewers eyes, and there is laughter and talking, coughing and heckling...soon the viewer (hopefully) realizes that they are the performance- they are on the stage being heckled by an audience of bodiless voices: the audience is all speakers.
Many people told me that they felt truly degraded and belittled during their encounter with this piece. It was never my intention to make anyone feel bad! But I found it interesting that people had such emotional reactions. The piece is about how we, as artists and people, are expected to get up and perform, and all the times we fail, or think we fail, and all our anxieties about performance.
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