PAIN & BALL

PLACE REQUIREMENT: performance should take place in the hall, café bar or the other none specifically gallery place.

PARTICIPANTS: GABRIELA VASIC, cameraman, video mixer, sound technitian, waiter

DURATION TIME: 15 min.

EQUIPMENT NEEDS: 14 round café bar tables, 54 seats, drinks for 54 persons, 2 DV cameras (one will be brought) , 2 DV tapes of 90 min., video mixer, cables for video in and out which connect mixer, camera and a video beam, video beam, shelf for video beam projector settled on the ceiling, 2 cartridges of red paintball bullets , CD player, sound equipment related to the space needs, a wall painted in white, size: 3m x 7m, protection helmet with white rabbit ears, protection costume size no. 44, black in color, with white nail, knitted basket for market, 21 packed rose flower, pair of rollers no.41 with protection, costume, helmet and equipment for the “Shooter” shoul b e provided! A pair of reflectors and fog machine with evaporating smoke should be providedas well if possible.

DESCRIPTION:

•  The gallery space is turned into a café bar with tables and chairs served with drinks. 20 round tables and 80 seats should be provided. The tables should be arranged “face to face” shaping free space among them. Space among them should be between 3-5m. The performance is simultanioslly projected in the real time on the back wall of the space. Camera is connected to the video mixer and video beam so the real time projection is enabled. Empty chairs and tables are “waiting” the audience on the wall projection. The waiter should offer drinks before the action starts. Soundtrack from optimistic middle '60. is tuned. Voices of recorded bar connversation are mixed with the music. The atmosphere is vague and dimmed.

•  Audience is gathering in the (arranged) space with tables. The camera operator records people sitting, drinking and talking. Real time projection is transmitted on the gallery back wall during the whole performance. People can see themselves. The Real time wall image is unconstant since camera operator moves in front of the seated people. The “Artist” appears from the dimmed space on rollerblades. Soundtrack slightlly turns into the distorted psychedelic sound. She is rolling from one to the other side of table groups. “Artist” moves around the tables, forhead to the video beam projection wall and infront the audience. While the “Artist” skates around, with the paintball marker, she pionts the images of the audence recorded by the camera. The color of the pintball shoud be in red, or mixed colored but dominantlly red. It looks like the artists injuries the audence. The paint hits the wall, slightlly driping down and coloring the people's image into the reddish tone. The wall becomes almost red. Smoke appears. Sound fades. Performance ends. Constant shooting disturbs sound of the music.

If there's a curator interested to take a part it's possible to involve him in the possition of the shooter!

Gabriela Vasic, Belgrade , August 2005.