GINA PERFORMA is:
-Not a critic
-Not very critical
-Blue jeans and high heels
-Leopard bomber jacket
- A fierce red wig
-Big sunglasses
-Carrying reserved signs with her to each performance
-An interviewer
-An attention whore
-On camera
-Giving face
-Getting autographs
-Writing through shit
-Performing through shit
-Performance
-PERFORMA Realness
-Not Ryan Tracy
To Wear:
Blue jeans
Leopard bomber jacket
High heels
Wig
Big fucking sunglasses
To Get:
Notepad for interviews
Reserved signs with name "GINA PERFORMA"
GINA PERFORMA is a score for Performa
She is a premonition of critical response to performance
Armed with a notepad and retractable pen, GINA PERFORMA
anticipates the expectation of critical correspondence
She is the interstitial space between performance and audience,
living in exclusively in neither realm;
GINA PERFORMA is the object between performance and society
She understands the performance not only as a score for criticism--which it is--
but also as score for appearance==which it is mainly:
GINA PERFORMA is seen
Her space is reserved at all times
Her performance of the Performa score is riichly documented
through photographs, many of which she will take of herself
GINA PERFORMA is also documented through the
collection of autographs she elicits from people at Performa;
these autographs make clear the social score of Performa, and all performance;
they are not just names, but styles, attitudes and identities
that construct the performative event through which "the" performance happens.
We regard the social performance--scored by the expectation of the actual perforrmance--
as real, therefore the performance itself exists in a space that must
continually work to assert its realness:
All Performa performances, then, will be scored by GINA PERFORMA
in terms of "realness".
All objects of a performance exist within this state; their veracity
continually under assault from the social performance from
within which it occurs
GINA PERFORMA accepts this realness up front; she believes realness;
She is realness;
She draws the audience into a fluxual crisis, undermining
the audience's assumption that the performance is unreal but actual,
and that they are real but exempt
As a score for Performa 09
GINA PERFORMA guides Performa 09
She is a beacon
A benchmark
A rail along which Performa 09 will roll
adhering to the terms set out in the score
GINA PERFORMA will show them
will mark them
will count out how Performa 09 happens
will measure its measures
will notate its notes
will compose its compositions
will perform its performances
will criticize its criticisms
GINA PERFORMA is here to help
she is ready
she is ready
she is ready
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