Saturday, May 7, 2011
play is dead. for many, no. but for too many, yes. i was amazed yesterday at how many people (students and faculty alike) did not even appear to bat an eye towards us -- walked right in front of the procession their gaze fixed ahead. either we appeared too commonplace (hard to believe) or many people simply have no time/patience/need for a distraction or diversion of any kind. curiosity is dead?
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For exactly this reason, I'm very interested to see the photos and video. I have a feeling that the whole performance functioned very well as *imagery.* I think one advantage of staying on campus is that there were lots of opportunities for people to be surprised by the spectacle of it from afar. I imagine that people--whether or not they had time or patience for it--could have glimpsed the processsion from their classrooms/offices/dorms and even just momentarily taken in this very strange low-tech steampunk bio-object. I think just the itinerant tableau of this moving sculpture/image is one thing that we pulled off very well.
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