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A6: Performance Art




For my performance art piece I dressed up in my Spryo the dragon onesie and walked around the park, picking up "treasure" while I played music from the original game through a small speaker attached to my bag. I wanted to do something a bit more fun and humorous and given that Spyro is a pretty iconic/ recognizable character I thought I would be able to get better reactions from other people. Both the music and my actions of picking up gems/treasures were from the original game Spyro the Dragon. Not that many people gave noticeable reactions to my performance, most would smile but then look away very quickly or they would simply ignore me. The best reactions I got came from children and people who seemed to recognize who I was dressed up as. The entire experience was not that much fun for me, I got hot very quickly inside the onesie walking around the park, my view was blocked because of the way the hoodie was designed,  and needless to say it was pretty embarrassing. I had more fun editing the video together and being able to see how people reacted to me.

Three performance art pieces that I enjoyed would be 1, the Frozen Grand Central performance art were the flash mob froze in place for five minutes and then continued on as if nothing had happened. 2, the Kagemu à Paris where his performance was incorporated along with the actions of what was going on in the screen behind him making it seem like he and the events on the screen were reacting to one another. And lastly 3, the Som Sabadell flashmob where after the little girl put a coin in the hat and entire orchestra slowly came out and began to play for the crowd. The only thing I can think of that would be cool to add to the field of Performance Art is a type of performance art were the crowd themselves takes on more of a performing role. Such as with the Kagemu à Paris, setting up a screen that reacts different depending on how the people interact with it.


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  1. UnknownApril 12, 2018 at 6:56 AM

    This was pretty epic. Who doesn't love Spyro. You had a cool idea and went through with it in a very public place. Also nice onesie!

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