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PERFORMANCE PIECE: The Art of Conversation

I am a creature of routine. Every day I eat the same breakfast, go to the same job and interact with the same people. I do not put myself “out there” and am not interested in meeting new people at this point in my life. Therefore, when I got the performance art piece project I was terrified. I tend to be the soft spoken, passive person in the back of the  classroom, so when I had to put on a performance in front of total strangers, I thought to myself absolutely not. However, it needed to be done so I did it. The Art of Conversation. In an increasingly digital world, we walk across a college campus and see absolutely no faces. Instead we are use to seeing the tops of heads, looking down at their increasing large phone screens, where everyone is in their own little digital world. The art of conversation is being lost. For my project I sought out strangers walking around The University of Tampa campus and simply introduced myself, asked how their day was and observed their physical and conversational behaviors. My idea for this project was to film genuinely awkward human interaction, and show how beautiful it can meet new people. At the end of the day we are all human and interacting with each other is more important than the technology we have been gifted with having. I was inspired to do this art piece after watching Genesis P-Orridge interviewed on Soft Focus at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Genesis was so genuinely herself while being interviewed and it got me thinking, shouldn’t everyone be like that when talking to a new person? For filming purposes I had a friend film from afar to keep the interaction genuine and had a recorder secretly stashed in my backpack to get a good audio file as well! 


HERE IS THE LINK: https://youtu.be/bMGitFbW3h8

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