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Open Engagement statement draft
For the upcoming Open Engagement, slated for May 2010, artist Angela Rose Voulgarelis proposes an interactive performance piece entitled Airing Dirty Laundry that aims to facilitate communication in new and unexpected ways.
An actual laundry line will be drawn in a public place, in front of which the artist will spend a portion of each day sitting and embroidering texts onto bed sheets – which she intends to then hang from the line at the end of each day.
Next to the artist will be a transparent ballot box, ballot cards, and pencils – this will be to exchange and collaborate with the public. Passersby will be asked to fill out the cards with the pencils provided and place them in the box. The texts from the cards will be what the artist will then embroider onto the sheets; the pencils will be offered as the exchange.
The choice to perform an everyday action in public rather than in private is in and of itself a way to intervene in space: it interrupts ideas of ‘acceptable’ civic behavior. To combine it with the playful yet thought-provoking notion of “airing dirty laundry” also aims to encourage people to share stories and life experiences they would ordinarily keep to themselves. This will, in turn, bring to light what we as a community tend to neglect: our own interconnection. Through the meditative repetition of an everyday activity, it is the intention of the artist to transform the notions of personal suffering into more universal empathy.
It would be a pleasure to perform Airing Dirty Laundry at the Open Engagement event this May 2010.
Thank you in advance for the consideration.
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