Performance Piece in Central Park
This Piece is titled Harvesting my Breath: Reap what you SowOn February 10, 2007 during a two mile walk, through Central Park, I (Jeremiah D. Reeves) harvested my breath in balloons.
This piece was part of a collaboration for the Hans Winkler 'Walking Newspaper Project in NYC.'
posted by jeremiah.reeves at 11:52 PM
5 Comments:
What a great concept.
Thank you. I am glad that you like it. It was a piece that raised alot of questions. Even during the performance, it was almost an ethical debate wether to continue or not for the whole two miles.
The show looks great! Excellent use of the space! I don't know what your intentions were for the park performance. I don't think it needs comment with pseudo intellectual bullshit claptrap. Its damned entertaining, you had the balls to doit, and thats all that matters.
-Jon
Thanks Jon, I appreciate it. I am glad that you don't buy into this system. I have been so down with its politics lately. It is something that doesn't really interest me. I mean I want conversation, raw and real, without all of this pretension. Your probably right. I just want to get back to the basics you know, the real reasons art is made...expression...communication...
conversation.
As for the intentions, I wanted to comment on this health counsciousness craze. On how doing something to "better" something, really hurts something else. I was collecting a "green house gas" emitted from people, while doing an aerobic exercise. I was trying to elaborate the sincerity or naivity of the farmer, hence the title and connotations of 'harvesting,' such as the giant cotton picking like sac. But in the process of doing it in the park I was depriving the trees of their essential need CO2, which in turn provides us with oxygen.
Your right. It is the humor that I was after... the irony. I tried to play the role sincerely, to ellaborate the humor. I was always told on stage, that to pull of a comedy, it must always be played sincerely. That the humor will take care of itself.
This is great info to know.
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