Project 4 Plan/Proposal

(My proposal is pretty similar to my brainstorming because I stuck with the same ideas.)

I have three ideas for my performance piece. My first idea is inspired by one of Marina Abramovic's pieces. I would wear shorts and a tank top and have a table (or something) next to me with markers. People can come and write whatever they want on my arms and legs. I would do this for about half an hour and see who actually comes to do it. It would be testing if people would want to participate in a sort of weird idea. I think some people would do it but I have no real idea if I would be covered in words at the end of it or just have a few scattered around. I would have my camera filming on a tripod the whole time and I would do minimal editing. But I do think I might want to trim some time so the whole video only showed when people were actually interacting with me. I would probably perform in either Turlington or the Plaza of the Americas where there is a lot of people. My second idea would be to trap myself in a small box for about an hour or so. The concept of doing this would be to show how small I feel I am when I'm really overwhelmed and how I kind of hold myself in and don't let anyone know whats going on in my head. I keep most of my feelings to myself and this small space would represent that. It would also challenge my body to stay in such an uncomfortable position and make me have to adjust to such an area. There might be a little more editing because I don't want it to be a boring video. This would also be a little ore of a personal project which isn't really something I've done before openly. My third idea would be to again enclose myself in a space but it would be a little longer and also include my cat Goose. I would try to show how my frustration really comes out when I get overwhelmed because I know that he'd be unhappy with being stuck in a space for a while. It would be interesting to see the contrast of our reactions because I'd be annoyed with him and he'd be annoyed with the space. Again my camera would be filming on a tripod so the angle might be weird but it would get more of a sense of the small area. I'd work with my cat to see how long he'd be able to stay for the final duration. This would really test my limits and just thinking about it makes me know it'd be pretty hard to do. Two of my ideas are sort of similar to the other, but I think it's because I'd rather do something on my own then in public as I'm a pretty shy person. For example I don't think I would participate if I saw some girl asking people to write words on her. But I think that would just be interesting to see how people are different. I think at this point I'm most interested in doing my third idea because I think it would be the most interesting having an animal included (I've also not included a cat in any of my projects this semester and I almost always have one project have cats included!!) Editing is going to be something I will decide more on after I think because I don't want to trim the video too much but I also don't really want to have an hour long video.