Fotozaal, homage to an unknown person

performance

January, 2009

"Project Perform 08/09",

De Brakke Grond

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

I was invited in "Project Perform"-a performance festival by Stichting Perform in De Brakke Grond. 'The moment of realization is blinded by a bright light.' Fotozaal is a temporary photo studio; Audience is photographed through a small wooden window in a staged environment. Initially as a participant he or she would not be aware of the reason for being framed, photographed and documented. The scene will unfold as you move to the other side of the frame, where you are capturing the next person in the same situation that you were in. After that, Audience fills in an application form in order to identify his or her portrait from a hundred of others. 160 portraits were taken and sent by mail. Our faces have been systematically registered as our identification to live in a society. A passport photographer or machine takes hundreds of portraits without care of your personality. Your portrait has to be protected from falling into the wrong hands, specially if somebody to take your portrait without asking. I wanted to take this issue into my performance in order to celebrate each of our life in this technetronic society.