LIVE PERFORMANCE
Red Feathered Egg Book
Intimate, site-specific, one-on-one performance
With Café Allongé by Spatula & Barcode
Café Olimpico, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
November 2011
“The story she performed was intriguing, and her invitations to me to join the narrative and to be in the moment were handled with grace and aplomb. I was also impressed by how she created a rich fantasy space for both of us even as quotidian Montreal neighborhood life went on around us . . .” — Jill Dolan
“. . .we seemed to fit there, all feathers and swirling movement, a bit of fantasy in the midst of daily life and no one seemed to bat an eye. Her confidence drew me in, to think, play, recall. ” — Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
This project – a live, conversational performance and its companion piece, a video – seeks to subvert expectations of intimate performance by resisting the viewer’s desire to access the speaking subject’s accurate, authentic, truthful account of herself, and instead to produce a multiplicity of possible truths. The project seeks to conflate intimacy and spectacle: to suggest that intimacy often makes a spectacle of itself, in the hyper-self-conscious removal of masks for the audience or the camera, and to explore the possibilities for a performative spectacle to produce intimacy with the viewer.
While the live, conversational performance is inherently participatory, the video piece also includes interactive elements, simulating an intimate one-on-one performance: the performer speaks directly to the audience, asks questions with space for answers, and asks audience members to fill out a cognitive map as she leaves the screen with music playing.
Read responses from live performance participants here and here
Watch an excerpt from the video here



