weekly update: my future is a collaboration
posted 01/31
Busy with a few projects…
The first is a visualization project I’m working on with Casper. The goal is to collect and visualize what we perceive as being beautiful, in an attempt to make people more aware of their environment and the way they perceive it, and to better understand our experience of beauty.
The second is a performance experiment in which I allow my life to be collaboratively scripted, one day at a time over an extended period. Each day, a script for tomorrow complete with dialogue, setting, costume, and stage directions is created through a publicly accessible and editable wiki. At midnight, the script is closed for editing and it becomes the basis for my performance of my life the following day. I maintain an online journal recording the scripts and some video and photo documentation of each daily performance, along with my reflections on the day and the project as it evolves. This outcome of this project is pretty undetermined, and I’m not entirely sure why I’m doing it but I felt like I had to try. I do know I am interested in the relationship between life and performance, in the blending of fiction and reality, in the dynamics of control, in the idea of collaboratively determining the future, in the infinite possible actions that I often forget while choosing a limited repeated subset of them to actually engage in each day, and in the potential transformations or outcomes that could come out of this just by me or someone else deciding that they will.
Check out www.lauren-mccarthy.com/script for more info and to participate.