Danny and I had similar thoughts in relation to the final site specific performance and met up to discuss certain aspects that we wanted to explore and present. We began very general before homing down our thoughts. The initial discussion leads us to the relevance of the art in the museum; why is it there, what is it doing? We spoke around the value of the spectators BEING art themselves and the essentiality within site specific performances and this brought us to class, the portrayal of the ‘middle class white man’ and oppression/repression characteristics. This is then something we felt we could run with.

For the final performance/instillation, we wanted to use the simplicity of Marina Abromovic’s work but then used Rimini Protokall as a stimulus in relation to their performance “100% City”. We were searching for something to represent everyone in the museum, not just those who have been chosen to be represented; a sort of truth within the Usher and the collection. Taking Protokall’s version of “100% City” in London, they write ‘In a world bombarded with ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’ 100% London tells the truth of modern London life in a way graphs or pie-charts never can‘ (anon, n.d.) It was made to show London’s diversity and population in a physical, dramatically statistical style and it was this essence that we wanted to dig into.

We wanted to segregate the audience into white males in one group and everyone else who doesn’t fall in that catagory into another group. Each group would make a seperate painting outside with the leadership of either myself or Danny. The leader with the white males would be in a suit, looking sharp and crisp, with the other group leader being a bit scruffy in a tracksuit and a generally dirty. We’d then take the paintings inside into the collection and offer them both for the same price to depict the equality that wasn’t being shown in the museum. There were, however, complications with this. What if it rained? What if people were seriously offended about being segregated? What if no one turned up? It was clear we had to alter our performance idea, but we wanted to follow the same sort of path.

Anon, Available at: www.rimini-protokall.de/website/en/project_5653.html [Accessed March 16, 2015].