Demonstrations is a set of works that combines thirteen online videos, specifically on YouTube, with video documentation of twelve live-art performances that ‘un-work’ the original thirteen online videos. The demonstrations research different kinds of ‘trace’ through combined methods that use body (subjective, communal), DIY performance, scores, video documentation, participation and event; they invoke audiences to do (or try) incomplete works that, inherently, seem un-working, mundane, politically ambiguous, and thus ‘inoperative’.
This item contains thirteen video demonstrations which were first presented online on a Youtube channel called Demonstrations.
1. How to outline through elastic and red tape – Demonstration 1 (2016)
2. How to saw wooden posts and become foot-vacuumed – Demonstration 2 (2016)
3. How to eat and be seen through a pretzel – Demonstration 3 (2016)
4. How to picture skies, faces and ceilings – Demonstration 4 (2016)
5. How to wrap and show one’s arms – Demonstration 5 (2017)
6. How to spill coffee and step over grounds – Demonstration 6 (2018)
7. How to bag one’s air – Demonstration 7 (2017)
8. How to make sufficient supplies – Demonstration 8 (2020)
9. How to rub coins and fingers through papers – Demonstration 9 (2018)
10. How to measure things with sticks and stones – Demonstration 10 (2018)
11. How to bore – Demonstration 11 (2019)
12. How to stretch – Demonstration 12 (2019)
13. How to evacuate – Demonstration 13 (2019)
The videos can also be viewed on Luzar's Youtube channel via this link.
Videos used courtesy of Robert Luzar. Used with permission.