Taking Stands: Taking Stands is a durational performance series where I stand in a given location for an extended period of time. It's Marina Abromovic stupid and on acid. For the first selection from the adjacent photographed performances, I stood, face 15 inches away from a brick wall, for a 5-hour period on Wednesday 11/10/10, 3:12pm - 8:22pm. The second series depicts a 3-Hour Stand in the middle of railroad tracks; the third, a heroic Stand on a shit-crap chair on 11/8/11 from 12:00pm - 5:25pm. The pieces function as explorations of space, time, purpose, and interpretation. Will an ostensibly random and arbitrary act serve as research into the feasibility of meaning projection, i.e., will meaning from this piece be derived from a passerby, from a spectator, from the wall itself, from my presence, from a particular object that I am holding? Will an observer enter the performance, will he/she contribute a verse, will this evolve the piece in a new direction, will their presence and association shift its meaning, its relevance, its overall value and "significance?"
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