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Approaching an empty table.

event:
Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival 2015
venue:
Defibrillator Gallery
location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
sponsor:
Defibrillator Gallery
date:
June 2015

Project Notes:

My performance was in a square 13 ft x 13 ft space at the front of the gallery.  Along the side overlooking the street were floor to ceiling windows.

I began in a corner in the back, sitting in a chair.  Over three hours I gradually moved the chair closer and closer to a table that was in the corner next to the front windows, diagonally across the space.  It had an empty chair on the side farthest from me.

I was hoping against hope that a particular person might appear and join me to sit at the table.

Yet the chair remained empty.

No one arrived as I drew close to the table.

Instead, delphiniums slowly arose from the seat of the chair, to hover in the air.

 

This was the second of three related works that I did at Rapid Pulse:

still. missing in 2012

still. waiting in 2015

still. here in 2019

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