Day #4

Instruction: Anthology of Displacement by Julie Andrée T.

1 performer
1 hot-water bottle, 1 cigarette, fast-food, 1 coffee “to go”, 1 newspaper, 1 walkman, 1 cell phone, 2 dictionaries, duct tape, 1 blindfold, 4 cups of coffee, 1 city map, 1protest sign, 2 pails of soapy water, 1 walker or crutches, 1 bucket filled with Coca-Cola, 1 white rug, red paint

1) Walk on all fours.
2) Walk while singing a jingle.
3) Walk with a water bottle between your legs (let the water slowly leak out).
4) Walk while smoking a cigarette.
5) Walk while running.
6) Walk while eating (fast-food).
7) Walk while drinking a “take out” coffee.
8) Walk while reading the paper out loud.
9) Walk while listening to a Walkman.
10) Walk while making a call on a cell phone.
11) Walk backwards (without looking).
12) Walk with a dictionary strapped to each foot with duct tape.
13) Walk blind (eyes blindfolded).
14) Walk with your feet and hands in four coffee cups (fill the cups with coffee).
15) Walk while looking at a map of the city.
16) Walk with a protest sign.
17) Walk with your pants and underwear around your ankles.
18) Walk with your feet in two buckets of soapy water.
19) Walk with a handicap.
20) Walk while falling down repetitively.
21) Walk using a walker or crutches.
22) Walk with your head immersed in a bucket filled with Coke.
23) Walk on a white rug with feet dipped in red paint.
24) Walk by slithering along the ground.
25) Synthesis (try to walk while performing as many of the above actions as possible, at the risk of going nowhere)

Note: Each displacement needs to be done from a point A to a point B. It can be done there and back or just one-way. Make sure the list of actions is visible so that it can be consulted by both the performer and spectators. Simply do the proscribed action, without extra or superfluous gestures. Let the performance BE; don’t BE the performance.

With the body and space at the heart of her research, Julie Andrée T. works in both installation and performance. Between the poetic and the commonplace, her work proposes common zones that are abstract, yet recognisable, in order to explore different aspects of cultural and existential theory.

by Christine Redfern, 2004-10-05 09:13:03