Oliver Herring: Areas for Action - Teens with Masks - Saturday October 23, 2010

This is a clip of the Gallery Club performing Oliver Herring's "Teens with Masks" at New York's Meulensteen Gallery on October 23, 2010.

In this installment of Herring's month-long series of live actions, 5 Brooklyn teenagers, in advance of the performance, purchased costumes at the Salvation Army.

They then wrote down topics of conversation of interest to them and placed them in a box. On the day of the performance they each constructed an aluminum foil mask to conceal their identity and further adorned themselves and each other. As visitors entered the gallery space, a question was randomly selected from the box and the conversation took off from there. Visitors were encouraged to add new topics.

Watch as the Gallery Club considers "When is a wrong right?" and other subjects, including not wanting to grow up, the meaning of love, life, art, and the aesthetics of their favorite cartoons.

The performers are Crystal Miranda, Chris Serrano, Moise J, Joey Asterisk, and Taz Sunshine.

A million thanks to Oliver Herring and his studio staff (Cody Evans and Matthew Newton), and The Meulensteen Gallery.

How Much Are They?
by Jah Wobble with Holger Czukay & Jaki Liebezeit

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