40 Minutes, Surveilled, 2024 was an experimental, impulsive performance in which i assumed the role of examiner and subject at the same time. For 40 minutes, i Was Voluntarily locked in a Basement room with only a moveable wooden table and a standing camera, in which he could not touch.
The concept of surveillance was observed and toyed with in this performance as i attempted to understand the mental changes a patient or prisoner Undergoes when confined. i allowed myself to act however i pleased while locked in the room and encouraged myself to engage in impulsive behaviour. Due to a purposeful lack of dialogue or verbiage in the entirety of the documentation except for the captions, the audience remains unknowing to all in which i am thinking aboout except for the examiner, who’s omniscience is due to him being me.
These stills below have been compiled into a bound print and then photographed. The short book was meant to accompany the filmed performance, to help summarize my observable actions and impulses. Time stamps are included beside each still, chronologically.
