Demonstration 3: how to eat and be seen through a pretzel
DEMONSTRATIONS (2016-2020)
are videos appearing on YouTube and also in live-art performances that partially show or ‘demonstrate’ actions which ‘may’ or ‘may not’ be done by anyone, artist and/or audience.
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Demonstrations are works that vacillate between social-political demonstrations and ‘how to’ videos that often appear on YouTube. These works show audiences step-by-step actions on how to do––and possibly change––certain actions with their bodies, common materials and spaces. The videos use subtitles to outline actions as possibilities – and impossibilities at times. These are also works that appear in performances, where audiences asked to either participate or watch demonstrations take place – and in ways different to however the actions seem to first appear in the videos. ‘May’ or ‘may not’ are words that repeat throughout the subtitles, and are also spoken out loud through out these works. Audiences are therefore offered ways of participating by either viewing, doing or, even, re-doing works that seem interrupted and failing, or ‘un-working’, in advance of having been made.
Demonstration 7: how to bag one's air (live performance)
