February 3, 2010
Jabberwocky Prototype, copyright Brett Ascarelli 2010
This prototype integrates Lewis Carroll’s famous poem with instructions for a person to follow while reading. The instructions are designed to twist the reader’s everyday life into a theater of unusual experience and performance. The result:
Beware the results of actionotation!
February 3, 2010
It turns out that God actually answers them.
New Year's Day 2010 at the Western Wall, copyright Brett Ascarelli
But when all the nooks and crannies in the Western Wall are full, the answers turn up near another of the world’s holiest stones–that which lies near Krakow’s Wawel Castle.
Krakow's Wawel Castle purportedly houses one of the world's holiest stones
Notes found in the wall near Wawel Castle
Don’t delay. Make your pilgrimage plans now.
February 3, 2010
The Dry Wash experience / performance was installed during the Aspuddsbadet-inspired exhibition at the Konstfack Gallery during winter 2009
As a variation on the Hand Wash project of fall 2008, Dry Wash was exhibited in December 2009 as part of the Aspuddsbadet show at Konstfack’s gallery. Dry Wash invited exhibit-goers to have a bath during the show. People who experienced this co-performance sat in vaguely demarcated bathtubs, while we scrubbed them with soap, sponges and brushes.
Another view of the shorthand bathtubs
Some of the participants were interviewed briefly about how the experience felt. Everyone enjoyed it, but many likened it to getting a massage, which was not the aim. Rather, the goal was to persuade them to adopt new grooming habits that incorporate other people.
Washing two people
