Joel: "Performance/Audience/Mirror" by Dan Graham
- founded own gallery at age 22
- has done performance, installation, sculpture, photography, and many more art forms
- influenced by present day life
- Great relationship between speaker and audience
- the point of the mirror is to remind us that when watching one person speak in the room, they are also looking back at us. and we may not realize what we are doing or how we look, like posture of facial expression, until he points it out, it seemed like the mirror wasn't even there
- the seating area isn't the most comfortable, so it triggers movement which Graham incorporates into the piece. Not too uncomfortable that people loose interest, but just enough to add to the performance.
- at a certain point eye-contact is made and certain people try their best to break it
- there is a very simple angle that doesn't change. simple, not distracting
- shot in black and white because color tends to distract people. the point of the piece was to get their attention on what was being said
- rehearsal of roles
- camera person can be seen in mirror and even he is incorporated in the performance
- we often forget we are being watch
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