Untitled: self-portrait

Untitled: self-portrait (2005). Black polyester, wooden folding chair, sound recording, 30-foot string of folded paper birds, umbrella. 25 minutes; 1:38 min clip. [La Lumiere, LaPorte, IN]

A sunset performance in a football field: the artist suspends from a goal post. Recorded sound of whistling and plucking was captured in an adjacent gymnasium and hung inside with three objects. The audience came over a ridge and down a hill to approach the black sack to receive various cues as the sun set and all the objects were given away.

Blurb: Hanging from a goal post, with sound, a wooden chair, hundreds of paper birds, and an umbrella. Almost everything inside is given away to the guided and timed audience. Each audience member had a different exposure time to the performer.

Performed at La Lumiere, Indiana, in 2005. Camera: Elizabeth Czekner, Editor: Brian Kallies, Assistant: Ami Trosley.
© 2005

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