Presented 16 editions in 15 different cities, with 249 performers, over the span of 10 years.
Participants lie face down on the street where they occupy a sidewalk and proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times.
The sound of each person’s actions is amplified.
Each person has their own amplifier.
Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity.
Each person follows a simple score from memory.
Scroll down for SCORES.
Hit Parade (Seoul). For the first edition ten participants lie face down on the street where they block traffic and proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified through an amplifier located in the garden of the SongWon Art Center. Cables run over the wall connecting the participant in the street to the amplifier in the garden. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. Once the participants had finished, the mics and the cables were left in their place for cars to run over them. An installation documented the performance with the remnants of the microphones and a polaroid for each participant. The installation was presented at the TOTAL Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul. The performance and installation were part of SFX SEOUL 2007 and took place on September 8, 2007. Participants: Jung Ye Sle, Zin Kyung-Chui, Lee Jae-hoon, Maeng Dami, On Jeonghyi, Kim Bum-jun, Jin Soony-hoon, Haan-Ayoo, (and two names missing).
Hit Parade (Montreal). For the second edition eleven participants lie face down on the street where they almost block traffic on Boulevard St. Laurent and proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each person chooses their own rhythm and intensity. The performance took place as part of the Suoni per il Popolo, at the Sala Rossa, June 9, 2008. Participants: Adam Bobbette, Gina Badger, Alexis Bellavance, Olivia Boudreau, Sophie B. Clément, Leanne Dyer, Nadège Grebmeier-Forget, Darsha Hewitt, Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Fred Savard, Janice Wu.
Hit Parade (Quebec). For the third edition fourteen participants lie face down on the street where they occupy the atrium of the museum and proceed to pound the ground with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. The performance was part of C’est arrivé près de chez vous at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (curator Nathalie de Blois), January 17, 2009. Participants: Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand, Wahmed Benyounes, Adam Bergeron, Edith Dufour, Martin Dufrasne, Caroline Gagné, Caroline Gauthier, Pascal Gingras, Jonathan Lamy, Josée Landry-Sirois, Pierre-Luc Lapointe, Christof Migone, Hugo Nadeau, Geraldine Perna.
Hit Parade (Dundee). For the fourth edition twelve participants lie face down on the street where they block foot traffic at the entrance of the DCA and proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. The performance was part of Kill Your Timid Notion, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), 21-28 February, 2010. Participants: Sinéad Bracken, Tara Chaloner, Liam Casey, Paul Gault, Sylvia Law, Eaun Lynch, Eilidh MacKay, Kristen Parker, Benjamin B. Parkes, Laurie Pit, Gillian M. Smith, Alison Tarry.
Hit Parade (Winnipeg). For the fifth edition fifteen participants lie face down on the street where they occupy a sidewalk and proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. The performance was presented in part by Plug In for the Send+Receive Festival, October 7, 2011. Participants: Elise d’Awson, Heather Baril, Irene Bindi, Taylor Burgess, crys cole, Chantal Dupas, Angela Forget, Erica Jacobson, Cameron Johnson, Joe Kalturnyk, Les Klassen, Sandee Moore, Andrea Roberts, Josh Rose, Robert Taite.
Hit Parade (Porto). For the sixth edition twelve participants lie face down on the street where they occupy a city square and proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. The performance was part of the Trama Festival. Performance took place on October 14, 2011. Participants: João Miguel Brojo, Diana Costa, Matilde Nicolau de Almeida, Sarah Klimsch, Fernando Sebastião Lalanda, Alícia Moreira, Cátia Neves, Ana Sofia Nico, Paulo Bruno Osório, Pedro Pereira, Ricardo Pereira, Felícia Teixeira.
Hit Parade (New York). For the seventh edition thirteen participants lie face down where they proceed to pound the ground with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. They take a pause at every hundred of whatever length they wish. Presented as part of Arika’s programming for the Whitney Biennial titled A survey is a process of listening, May 3, 2012 at the Whitney Museum. Participants: Deboarah Aruta, Donna Blicharz, Robin Edgerton, Storm Garner, Dawn Kasper, Dages Keates, Seth Kim-Cohen, Jecca, Jeff Ladouceur, Sayhan Musaoglu, Christopher Ortiz, Meena Sajwani, Maya Winfrey.
Hit Parade (Toronto). For the eighth edition seventeen participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. They take a pause at every hundred of whatever length they wish. Presented as part of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, October 27, 2012, in the lobby of the Ontario College of Art & Design (rain location). Participants: Sharlene Bamboat, Marc Couroux, Connor Crawford, Brian Da Silva, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Dorothea Hines, Reena Katz, Brianna MacLellan, Mitchell McGoey, Michelle D. Moreno, Faye Mullen, Stephen Parkinson, David Poolman, Eldritch Priest, Tasman Richardson, David Sutin, Jay Wilson.
Hit Parade (Rotterdam). For the ninth edition ten participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. They take a pause at every hundred of whatever length they wish. Presented as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, part of the Signals: Sound Stages curated by Edwin Carels. Monday, January 28, 2013, at the Schouwburgplein. Participants: Barry Esson, Sato Endo, Tjyying Lui, Judith Vld Made, Kiki Petratou, Marcy Saude, Kate Taylor, LiChun Tseng, Janneke Van Der Putten, Marielle Verdijk.
Hit Parade (Kitchener). For the tenth edition fifteen participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. They take a pause at every hundred of whatever length they wish. Presented at the Between the Ears portion of CAFKA.13, May 31, 2013, in Kitchener City Hall. Performers: Line Antonisen, Krista Blake, Richard Burrows, Adam Campbell, Vedran Dzebic, Michelle Hwu, David Jensenius, Sandro Manzon, Daniel Morphy, Mark Prier, Micheline Roi, Natalie Romano, Greg Samek, Ryan Scott, Stefan Serada.
Hit Parade (Milan). For the eleventh edition twelve participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. They take a pause at every ten for the first hundred, and then at every hundred, and just before reaching one thousand. The pause can be of whatever length they wish. Performance presented in the context of the Cildo Meireles exhibition titled Installation. The same evening featured Mark Fell’s Sky Dancers. Thursday July 10, 2014, at HangarBicocca in Milan, Italy.Participants: Najma Bader, Federico Crafa, Francesca Fedeli, Giulia Garofalo, Laura La Torraca, Sergio Messina, Nicola Mette, Federica Panelli, Davide Savorani, Olivia Strada, Simone Trabucchi, Stefano Zicchieri.
Hit Parade (Melbourne). For the twelfth edition thirty-nine participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. For the most part each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity, but each performer is given a specific instruction. Performance presented by the Liquid Architecture Festival in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Participants:Annabel Allen, Alan Bamford, France Barrett, Craig Bellamy, Gary Butler, Carmen Chan, J Chen, Rochelle Duke, Sarah Edwards, David Evans, Arie Glorie, Nathan Gray, Ceri Hann, Camilla Hannan, Kieran Hegarty, Jamie Helmer, Lloyd Honeybrook, Gemma Horbury, i’d m thfft able, Zoe Irving, Daniel Jenatsch, Amy-Jo Jory, Arvind Kumar, Anthony Magen, Kym Maxwell, Noah Maxwell, Andrew McDaddy, Adrian Meade, David Mutch, James Myers, James Parker, Helena Sandahl, Esther Tandi, Brett Thompson, Elizabeth Van Herwaarden, Jule Vincent, (and three missing names).
Hit Parade (Zagreb). For the thirteenth edition twenty-five participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. For the most part each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity, but the performers inside the space moving progressively towards the center (while the six that were paired at each of the three entrances to the pavilion stayed put). Performance presented as part of the Expanded Cinema section of the 25fps festival, Zagreb, Croatia, September 27, 2015. Performers: Inesa Antic, Viktoria Babic, Oleg Beric, Daria Blazevic, Sonja Durajlija Zinic, Kaya Erdinç, Sanja Grbin, Ana Horvat, Lana Jastrevski, Viktoria Krcelic, Ejla Kovacevic, Lucija Mandekic, Jesse McLean, Matej Merlic, Mateja Milic, Ilija Milosevic, Layla Munitic, Ivan Renic, Julian Ross, Arron Santry, Tomislav Soban, Tina Tisljar, Iva Tkalec, Ivan Turkalj, Erwin van’t Hart.
Hit Parade (Cagliari). For the fourteenth edition twenty-two participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the pavement with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. Performers were solicited through an open call. Presented as part of Cagliari Capitale 2015 events, at the MEM – Mediateca del Mediterraneo in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, November 20, 2015. Performers: Serra Alessandra, Riccardo Angius, Campus Benedetta, Daniela Cascella, Giulia Casula, Andrea Cristina Ceccarelli, Gianluigi Concas, Mereu Federica, Sara Giglio, Roberto Manca, Beatrice Marci, Delia Meloni, Paola Mereu, Pilia Miriam, Cinzia Orru, Stefania Russo, Emanuela Russo, Giorgia Schirru, Stefania Scano, Pilia Simone, Pau Sonia, Maria Giovanna Tolu.
Hit Parade (Lausanne). For the fifteenth edition thirteen participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the floor of the Casino lobby with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. Performers were solicited through an open call. Presented as part of the Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF), at the Casino de Montbenon, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 21, 2017. Performers: Laura Daengeli, Laurence Favez, Renata Gachoud, Christian Indermuhle, Stephane Kropf, Walter Mathias, Francisco Meirino, Hiroko Sato Pennec, Christine Ritter, Kazehito Seki, Graziella Torrigiani, Sébastien Vigne, Thibault Walter.
Hit Parade (Seoul2). For the sixteenth edition ten participants lie face down on the ground where they proceed to pound the floor of the gallery with the microphone one thousand times. The sound of each person’s actions is amplified. Each performer chooses their own rhythm and intensity. Performers were solicited through an open call. Presented as part of the group exhibition “Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Sound Effects Seoul 2017” curated by Baruch Gottlieb and Ji Yoon Yang, at the ArKO Museum, Seoul, South Korea, December 8, 2017. Performers: Yoon-Bin, Hyun Jin Choi, Yoon Joo Kang, Hye won Kim, Ji Hye Kim, Sol Mi Kim, Young eun Kim, Jungsuh Lim, Ji Won Park, Ji Yea Park.
SCORE – 7TH VERSION (LAUSANNE)
VARIATIONS (REST SAME AS 3RD VERSION): One the same day as the performance, a two-hour workshop titled Open Mic was held. The workshop provided background on the performance and discussed the intent and structure at length. Five persons who attended also participated in Hit Parade. Those five were invited to suggest variations and collectively we decided on a number of ‘sanctioned’ gestures that could be activated for a grouping of 100 hits once in a while. These were: 1) standing up and letting the microphone fall and bounce off the floor, 2) rubbing the floor instead of hitting it, and 3) scraping the microphone head with your fingernail.
SCORE – 6TH VERSION (CAGLIARI)
VARIATIONS (REST SAME AS 3RD VERSION):
FIRST AND LAST HUNDRED FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW, OTHERWISE AT EVERY HUNDRED PERFORMER CAN CHANGE POSITION.
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (PAUSE) (2 PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING)
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 (PAUSE) (2 MORE PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING, TOT. 4)
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 (PAUSE) (2 MORE PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING, TOT. 6)
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 (PAUSE) (2 MORE PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING, TOT. 8)
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 (PAUSE) (2 MORE PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING, TOT. 10)
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 (PAUSE) (2 MORE PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING, TOT. 12)
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 (PAUSE) (2 MORE PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING, TOT. 14)
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 (PAUSE) (2 MORE PERFORMERS DO HIT GESTURE WITHOUT HITTING, TOT. 16)
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100(PAUSE) (ALL PERFORMERS HIT) (PERFORMERS CAN CHANGE POSITION)
901 902 903 904 905 906 907 908 909 910 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BEHIND HEAD)
911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 919 920 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BESIDE HEAD)
921 922 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BY HIP)
931 932 933 934 935 936 937 938 939 940 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BEHIND HEAD)
941 942 943 944 945 946 947 948 949 950 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BESIDE HEAD)
951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BY HIP)
961 962 963 964 965 966 967 968 969 970 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BEHIND HEAD)
971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BESIDE HEAD)
981 982 983 984 985 986 987 988 989 990 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BY HIP)
991 992 993 994 995 996 997 998 999 (LIE ON BACK AND HIT WITH ARM EXTENDED BEHIND HEAD)
(LONG PAUSE)
1000 (PERFORMERS LIE ON THEIR BACK, HOLD MIC TO MOUTH AND BREATHE UNTIL LAST PERFORMER IS FINISHED)
SCORE – 5TH VERSION (ZAGREB)
VARIATIONS (REST SAME AS 3RD VERSION):
AFTER EVERY 100 PERFORMERS INSIDE THE PAVILION MOVE TOWARDS THE CENTER.
SCORE – 4TH VERSION (MELBOURNE)
VARIATIONS (REST SAME AS 3RD VERSION):
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 1: Hit as slow as possible for the first half and as fast as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 2: Hit as slow as possible for the first half and as fast as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 3: Hit as slow as possible for the first half and as fast as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 4: Hit as slow as possible for the first half and as fast as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 5: Hit as fast as possible for the first half and as slow as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 6: Hit as fast as possible for the first half and as slow as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 7: Hit as fast as possible for the first half and as slow as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 8: Hit as fast as possible for the first half and as slow as possible for the second.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 9: Make each pause twice as long as the last one.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 10: Make each pause twice as long as the last one.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 11: Make each pause twice as long as the last one.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 12: Make each pause twice as long as the last one.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 13: Alternate each section between pauses between hitting softly and hitting hard.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 14: Alternate each section between pauses between hitting softly and hitting hard.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 15: Alternate each section between pauses between hitting softly and hitting hard.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 16: Alternate each section between pauses between hitting softly and hitting hard.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 17: Hit increasingly fast and loud.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 18: Hit increasingly fast and loud.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 19: Start fast and loud, finish slow and quiet.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 20: Start fast and loud, finish slow and quiet.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 21: Start fast and loud, finish slow and quiet.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 22: Start fast and loud, finish slow and quiet.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 23: Try to finish first.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 24: Try to finish first.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 25: Try to finish first.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 26: Try to finish first.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 27: Try to finish last.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 28: Try to finish last.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 29: Try to finish last.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 30: Try to finish last.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 31: Ignore my instructions about pauses and take them whenever you feel like it.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 32: Ignore my instructions about pauses and take them whenever you feel like it.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 33: Don’t take any pauses.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 34: Don’t take any pauses.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 35: Make each hundred opposite of the preceding hundred (up to you to interpret).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 35: Make each hundred opposite of the preceding hundred (up to you to interpret).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 36: Make each hundred opposite of the preceding hundred (up to you to interpret).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 37: Make each hundred opposite of the preceding hundred (up to you to interpret).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 38: Make each hundred opposite of the preceding hundred (up to you to interpret).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 39: Within each block of one hundred ramp up and then down (could be in terms of speed or intensity or both).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 40: Within each block of one hundred ramp up and then down (could be in terms of speed or intensity or both).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 41: Within each block of one hundred ramp up and then down (could be in terms of speed or intensity or both).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 42: Within each block of one hundred ramp up and then down (could be in terms of speed or intensity or both).
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 43: Follow the score and nothing more.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 44: Follow the score and nothing more.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 45: Follow the score and nothing more.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 46: Follow the score and nothing more.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 47: Hit hesitantly sometimes.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 48: Hit hesitantly sometimes.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 49: Take longer than others to start.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMER NO. 50: Take longer than others to start.
