Blended Greetings I
Performance Art, Writing
Performance Excerpts
For as long as the audience shares accomplishments they have not shared with others before, the performer will put coins into rolls and tear them open.
Look down at the sky.
Bring a mirror outside and use it to reflect upwards at the sky.
Place the mirror between you and the audience.
Reflect on everyone’s features from below.
Look down at the sky.
Wait until a few people in the audience stop looking at the mirror.
Then, instruct them to look at their features and compare them internally with their parents.
Ask a member of the audience to tell you a story of their childhood in which they began to realize that their parents were people with lives independent from taking care of them.
Then, the performer will share a family secret.
You too can be the NSA!
Have the audience choose a number
Have the audience choose left or right.
Go to your text messages;
Use the number to select from whose texts to read.
Use the directions to decide which side of the conversation to read.
Read so that you go backward in time.
Have the audience stop you when they overstay their welcome.
The performer shaves the bottom end of a candlestick down to the wick while telling the story of a stressful work-related event.
The performer lights both sides of the candlestick.
The performer twirls the stick slowly enough that the candle remains lit,
While speaking about their proudest achievements.
They will do this in two different languages.
If one of the sides of the candlestick goes out early,
then drop one of the languages.
When the performer has run out of achievements,
They will blow out the bottom of the candlestick.
Then, the performer will read how much money they made in the last week aloud and blow out the other side of the candle.
What’s talent worth if I can’t afford to live?
A trombone is filled with water.
The trombone player attempts to play songs they know by heart.
A performer drags the trombone player across the space and back again while they play.
When the trombone player becomes uncomfortable, they take apart the trumpet and allow the water to fall to the floor.
This act ends the performance.
BG Scorebook
In parallel to these performances, both performed in the United States by Aru and I, as well as in Berlin by Aru, a book is being completed and written that covers the extensive 150 total scores written for these performance art shows.