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ONLY EXIT at voidspace live
Saturday, June 7th
2:00-4:00 PM
‘ONLY EXIT is existing as a performance practice / installation which troubles the rules of wayfinding. The project is a continuation of Camden and Angela [Rauf’s] spatial practice and research on [EXIT] signage, the collision of found space and public space in performance, and the utilization of wearable apparatus in performance. Positioning themes of performing anarchy, anarchitecture, and pleasure in transgressive protest, ONLY EXIT aims to invite audience / group / public to participate in the unmaking of the binary of direction and misdirection; to observe and make mischief happen; to work with and not for wayfinding directives. ONLY EXIT is a practice in the making of public space perhaps prompted by a performer / individual / clown / apparatus. The installation involves signage available in the found space, as well as visual and audio ephemera / apparitions for voidspace audiences to interact with and through to challenge learned spatial behavior. The challenge rests in facilitation and invitation. How can we invite an audience to perform with the performer in the making of public space? How do we listen to / enlist instructions, directions, to open opportunities to commune and collaborate with each other and the space?‘