Esther Belvis writes about Public Domain in Furtherfield. Besides boosting your ego, it is interesting to read an article on your own show that comes from outside the world of the critics. Performances always seem more interesting in other people’s words than how you perceive them yourself. Here, Esther Belvis emulates the mechanism of the show built on 250 questions and adds a few more: …is this piece a transduction of reality? …these practices subvert the traditional working relations? Is participation a necessary tyranny for creators to produce social changes? What are the affects and effects of these practices? In which ways will these practices will contribute to social change? Is participation the key for a major public commitment in matters that affect our daily lives? I hope in next performances answers to this questions.
The photograph is a screenshot from the video of Public Domain in Tokyo.