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== I WILL MAKE EIGHT HOURS OF MY PAST UNDONE. == | == I WILL MAKE EIGHT HOURS OF MY PAST UNDONE. == | ||
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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 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.'' | ||
The performance should take place in a shop window. | |||
== 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). == | |||
== The performance should take place in a shop window. == | |||
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The project poses questions of what it takes to undo or erase – what can possibly be undone through the process of taking apart and what new things, objects, ideas, feelings, memories, and values emerge from it? | The project poses questions of what it takes to undo or erase – what can possibly be undone through the process of taking apart and what new things, objects, ideas, feelings, memories, and values emerge from it? |
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