Monday, December 10
The I love you Questionnaire Show
I have an idea for a simple performance art spoken word piece.
As far as the stage goes, I need a stage back lit with blue light so that you see people’s silhouettes. Two mics on stage with loud enough volume that face each other. (Or maybe they face the audience.)
There may or may not be a sound track behind them. But might be cooler to have a sound track.
The performers could either be real actors or hopefully people from the audience or a mix of both. We need 10 of them. Two people at the mics at one time. So in 5 separate pairs.
The pair read to each other from a page they’ve just been given. The exchange is in the form of “question-answer”. One page is marked questioner, one page is marked answerer. Questioner starts first—asking question 1, then waiting for the answerer to respond.
People read basically what’s on the page. But they can feel free to read it however they like.
The questions and answers are made out of questionnaires we’ve distributed possibly through Mia’s mail art projects or other ways. And hopefully we get some really good/honest/touching/funny responses.
So it would be interesting to see how people:
-Say the words
-React to the words
-Maybe internalize it
The questions are things like:
What do you love?
Why do you love it?
When did you start loving it? Why then?
Did you ever stop loving it? Why?
How do you tell it I love you?
(I hate using ‘it’ here but who knows what they’ll say, so it’ll be reworded appropriately)
It would be cool if we could do a couple of short things like this for a little show next year.
Marky
P.S. I always have questions about how people feel about sharing this kind of stuff, especially if it’s gonna be used in a show or on the web. Anyone got any experience with the privacy/anonymity aspect of outside participation?
Self-Portrait with Chin Acne
Me "Self-Portrait with Chin Acne (and Tibetan art postcard)"
9x6in | 2007
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