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== The aim of this project is to create a performance that will last for eight hours – the normalized span of a working day (at least in Western-European conceptions of employment). | |||
The performance refers to my personal past, working as a tailor for several studios and workshops. | The performance refers to my personal past, working as a tailor for several studios and workshops. == | ||
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== I will invest eight hours of labor in undoing my own work by taking apart a jacket that I have made myself (within more than 60 hours of handcrafting). == | == I will invest eight hours of labor in undoing my own work by taking apart a jacket that I have made myself (within more than 60 hours of handcrafting). == | ||
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== The performance should take place in a shop window. == | == The performance should take place in a shop window. == | ||
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And after the work is (un)done, we can think of the pricing. | And after the work is (un)done, we can think of the pricing. | ||
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+ The performance will happen inside Kiosk.6 at Sophienstiftplatz, Weimar. <br> | |||
The performance will take 8 hours. | |||
Within the 8 hours I will take apart a jacket that I have made myself during my apprenticeship stitch by stitch. | |||
+ With me in the Kiosk there will be the jacket, a chair, the tools I need to take it apart, an empty mannequin, a punchclock and a camera. The singled out pieces of the jacket will fill up the window displays bit by bit.<br> | |||
The camera will be directed at my face, covered in tears, or at my hands by turns. | |||
+ The front window of the kiosk will be open to enable interaction with passers-by.<br> | |||
Above the window there will be a screen showing what the live-camera captures.<br> | |||
Next to the screen the title of the performance is displayed. | |||
+ Every hour (starting on hour 0) I will punch the punchclock, that is programmed to count backwards. I will also use a tear-stick to make my lacrimal sacs produce tears. | |||
+ The performance ends when the 8 hours have passed. By the end all pieces of the jacket shall be detached from each other. | |||
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