Serra Performance, 2016, 1 hour, Loughborough University Studios

For this performance I inhabited a busy corridor in the Fine Art building at Loughborough University. I glossed my body in complete black and obscured my face with a bucket to allow the audience to feel comfortable engaging with the performance and also allow myself, as the performer, to become a sculptural form. I instructed a peer to act as a curator to say the line “Sorry, the artwork is delicate, please remove your socks and please do not step in the box.” I marked out the box to push the spectators to press their body against the wall. This makes the audience have to work to see the artwork and truly experience the performance. The spectators have to also conform to the structures of the gallery setting.

There were four types of interaction:

1. The viewer complied with the instructions and removed their socks and stayed out of the box

2. The viewer who just made sure they stayed outside the box 

3. The viewer who just ignored the performance 

4. The viewer who was too nervous and uneasy to interact, they decide to turn around and find another way around the performance.