Make Like It's Yours (2014)
Performance; 1 tractor, 10 litres of water, table and chairs constructed from plywood and crushed during performance, popcorn, cloth, live-video projection, trailer.
Duration: 2hrs
Performed: Salem Art Works, upstate New York
Artists: Kathryn Hamilton, Brandt Adams, Lori Parquet, Isabel Sanchez, Brian Oh, Audience members.
'Make Like It’s Yours' is a live TV show, filmed with the participation of the audience. It is the first in a series about hospitality (Stranger Question, Best Way, Whats Yours Is Mine) and begins from two considerations of hospitality: Jean Genet’s instruction that a guest must steal from their host, to break the bond of debt through a transgression; and Derrida’s 1996 lectures on hospitality, "Foreigner Question", "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality”. The piece is a series of experiments in radical hospitality, with a form inspired by 1980’s avant-garde art on T.V. shows like Kęstutis Nakas, Your Program of Programs’, and Christoph Schlingenseif’s U3000 which was broadcast from the Berlin subway. It was developed and performed at Salem Art Works, a sculpture park in Upstate New York, and takes place in an old barn, and a caravan, the interior of which is visible via live-streamed projection.
