xPLURAL
(1995)
A participatory performance presentation.
Presented at Radio Unbound, Timms Arts Center, Edmonton, Canada and at Transit, Innsbruck, Austria.
A radio transmission without a transmitter. Radiophonic communications without transmitter are not an impossibility.
Tactics of diffusion that bypass the hardware can enable one to transgress the authoritative imperatives one usually attributes to telecommunications.
A participatory exercise at communication which incites multiplication through breakdown.
Audience and performer sit in a circle, performer starts passing around standard size pages of paper (see script below). The pages never have more than one written line, sometimes they have just a letter, sometimes nothing. The rhythm of the passing varies, sometimes the pace fosters readability of the text, sometimes it hampers it. Sometimes objects and images are added to the circulation.
Other versions were done as in-class exercises while a student (MFA class at NSCAD in 1995 and in May Joseph’s class at New York University, Department of Performance Studies, Fall 1998).
Then in classes I have taught (Performing the Body, NYU Undergrad Drama Spring 2002, and Interdisciplinary Studio IDYS 300 at Concordia University, Montréal Winter 2003).
This was the first iteration of what was subsequently titled Pass.
Other versions: Pass (Toronto), Pass (Dundee), Pass (Rotterdam), Pass (Kingston), Pass (Halifax), Pass (Reykjavik), The Prestidigitator.
