139 ASSISTED CONFESSIONS (After 1984 After 1984, or Confession is the Princess of Evidence) (2011, 11 min. 59 sec.) uses Winston’s final confession from the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel as a template for my own declarations of guilt. This does not qualify as recent work, but it is especially relevant right now.
In preparation for the piece, I removed key words from the film script. Over the course of the 4-hour online performance (edited down to a video of under 12 minutes), 5 assistants filled in the blanks in the text, providing me with a series of scripted confessions that I delivered to my webcam. The result is a darkly comic confession admitting everything or nothing.