image credit: Glasshouse Art-Life Lab
24-HOUR CONFESSION (PITY PARTY #1) (2014)
a participatory performance-installation by
seth and heather warren-crow
a participatory performance-installation by
seth and heather warren-crow
24-Hour Confession (Pity Party) is a participatory sound performance in which Heather Warren-Crow and guest participants take on the self-professed crimes of celebrities and fictional characters, from Anthony Weiner and Kanye West to Winston from 1984. Using transcribed statements and appropriated text as templates (but with key words removed), the Warren-Crows ask visitors to complete the confessions in the manner of the game MadLibs. Heather and guest confessors read all of these mea culpas aloud, adding new scripts to the pile in real-time. Since no pity party is complete without sweet jams, Seth and guest musicians process Heather's voice and provide the sonic underscore for her tragicomic confessional. Refreshments are provided.
24-Hour Confession (Pity Party) was performed at Glasshouse Art-Life Lab gallery (Brooklyn, NY) in December of 2014. A 4-hour version of the performance was presented at Counterpath Gallery (Denver, CO).
As Tyler Atwood describes the Denver exhibition in his review, "The repetition that occurs in the course of their four hour performance...is reminiscent of both the distortion that occurs in the 24-hour news cycle, and the distortion that occurs in attempting to place deleterious actions in a context that justifies them."
24-Hour Confession (Pity Party) was performed at Glasshouse Art-Life Lab gallery (Brooklyn, NY) in December of 2014. A 4-hour version of the performance was presented at Counterpath Gallery (Denver, CO).
As Tyler Atwood describes the Denver exhibition in his review, "The repetition that occurs in the course of their four hour performance...is reminiscent of both the distortion that occurs in the 24-hour news cycle, and the distortion that occurs in attempting to place deleterious actions in a context that justifies them."
image credits: Glasshouse Art-Life Lab