Long durational performance

2,5 hours of duration - altogether 5 sessions, each 30 min long.

The Sunday crowd had always been outside the glass window of MAM.

Whatever they did, whether they drank, smoked, danced, sang, vomited or slept, the museum was somehow protected from them by the glass. It was time to remove the protection and invite some 25 most picturesque characters out of them to participate in a long durational performance. (The rest could come and watch.)

There would be 25 simple plywood tables installed inside of one of the museum galleries.

Each table would have two low plywood chairs and one tall plywood stool next to it.

There would be 25 education team members sitting against 25 Sunday crowd kids separated by tables.

There would also be the third category of participants: 25 members of the audience at a time - they would become referees - picking the theme from the table (there would be the table with the themes written on the special cards and left for them to choose) for a half an hour long conversation and operating the bell that would help moderate the conversation without saying a word - just ringing the moment it goes wrong/boring/out of subject.

So 75 people in the room at each time - plus normal visitors who could wander around the space, listening to those dialogues (which would be recorded anyway) and eye-witnessing some highly emotional and existential moments.