Project Proposal:
Our overall
group mission addresses the theme of fear of people interacting and social
anxiety. We wanted to use performance to confront these issues.
Fellow
senior at Parsons, Lexy Ho-Tai, is doing her senior thesis on the way people
interact through fashion. She wants to use people to create her fabric through
weaving, dyeing, and other small experiments all done via public interaction. I
want to help her execute this by helping her set up a day, time, and place in
Washington Square park where she can not only interact with the community, but
the community can interact with each other. So many people now are terrified to
step away from their smartphones and simply talk to one another. No one is
willing to have a conversation without the use of emojiis. As Lexy says to me
all the time “what ever happened to a real genuine smile?”
By forcing
people to actually use their hands, people will have to put away their personal
technology and instead actively engage in what they are doing. Once the phones
are down, it is her hope that people will begin to interact with one another,
focus on what their doing, have fun, and actually talk to one another.
Lexy would
provide the materials for the public to use, but I would need to gain
permission from the park. I would need to acquire an area, a time, a permit,
and maybe potential advertising permits in conjunction with the park.
Erin Pienta
Image and work by Lexy Ho-Tai
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