Borrowed Splendour
2008 – Ongoing
Performance / Duration: 20 minutes.
Two men and one woman, different for each show, enact a pre-scripted situation. They have no previous idea of they are supposed to do – they discover their task at the same time as the audience. Two instructors guide them with detailed directions via microphones.
Within the script, the possible relations between the three characters are continuously shifting. The participants gradually transform from executors of a task, to actors playing a role, who interpret, manipulate and at times diverge from the script.
NASA, Amsterdam 2013
Lift your eyebrows in a questioning manner.
Look at mark 4 on the table, breath in deeply.
Think violent thoughts.
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