DYI artists, with a side of what I thought about Exercise 1.

PIPILOTTI RIST [ R-002A ]
Nachbarstück / Neighbor piece

- Read newspaper - Spring from chair and let the opened newspaper lie on the table - Run for your life around your best friend's house - Whistle and throw a stone up against her window - Wait till she opens the window - Shout up to her that our common idol has died - Cry together |

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I like this one best.

It struck me as kind of silly, at first, but after thinking about it for a bit i realised its true tragic
nature. The language of these instruction's is awkward (perhaps due to the translation of them, though I believe it is intentional).

Clearly, this "common idol" must be loved by whoever participates in this.

Even more tragic if the participants knew the idol personally, perhaps a friend or family to one of them, or both. How tragic would it be to find out of this person's demise through a source like a newspaper.

Also, I'm sure that these are instructions that everyone, one way or another, will some day follow, in a way further adding to the tragedy.

As for Exercise 1; I liked it. I think that had we had more time and resources, we could have clarified our roles better, but it had a certain messiness and spontaneity to it that I like to have in my performance art. It was a tough decision, because I didn't want it to be very obvious, but I didn't want people not to notice it either.

Other preformances to consider:

Man and Woman sitting down.
Man and Woman waiting in line at the airport.
Man and Woman using an elevator.

If I could, I would like to have more people participating, with people playing random roles. Some men playing men, some playing women, some women playing men and and some playing women. Perhaps the audience would be given a piece of paper with the names of the actors and their roles at the beginning like a play, or maybe it would be revealed in end credits, like a movie. I think that this piece is better for a movie.