'Subtly' was a collaborative experimental performance piece by myself and artist Eryn Gross. As part of artforum90 we had an opportunity to create something for Zuhause space in Liverpool led by students from our course.
"We are incorporating our interests through a performative collaboration, exploring many
people’s responses from conversations to behaviours and their connection to the space. This
intervention will be subtle, capturing the present moment of time through the use of
documentation and language."
Myself ad Eryn are interested in people and their behaviour as well as documentation and observation of our surroundings. We have decided to experiment with this to see where it would lead. We wanted to make use of this group show where we could subtly observe people and what was happening around us and document this in a particular way. For two hours we have observed people, their positions in space, their movements and behaviours and also our own involvement in the space. We had small white stickers for us to document our observations which we stuck on the wall or the floor where we were standing at the time. That way logging in the time and place.
We also experimented with this through texting and telling and asking each other detailed questions about what we see. Triggering interesting observations to surface.
Although we looked like we were ignoring or were disinterested in the show, we were very observant, testing the boundary of being present in the moment and at the same time being distracted (texting).
~Ev
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