Brigitte Dätwyler

Request: Event Score
2011
2 computers, internet, projectors, spots, webcam, large bowl with event scores on paper, five envelopes, water, apples, pencils, tape
20-25'
  • admission
  • hotel: performers
  • museum: audience
  • welcome
  • please stand into the light
  • i like performance because it's social
  • motivation: idealism
  • who will help us?
  • first score gets fished out of the bowl
  • drawing matches to define the performer
  • preparation for score 1
  • ben vautier 1963: drink
  • listening to score 2
  • preparation for score 2
  • ken friedman 1968: hommage to Christo
  • terms of motivation
  • hold up your hand to vote
  • poll
  • poll: money
  • voters
  • money: go to the bowl, take a score and unfold it
  • read it and fold it again
  • go to a person you don't know, shake hands
  • exchange your score, tell your name, your profession and your salary
  • bye
  • watch your broadcast
  • view on the hotel from the museum
admissionhotel: performersmuseum: audiencewelcomeplease stand into the lighti like performance because it's socialmotivation: idealismwho will help us?first score gets fished out of the bowldrawing matches to define the performerpreparation for score 1ben vautier 1963: drinklistening to score 2preparation for score 2ken friedman 1968: hommage to Christoterms of motivationhold up your hand to votepollpoll: moneyvotersmoney: go to the bowl, take a score and unfold itread it and fold it againgo to a person you don't know, shake handsexchange your score, tell your name, your profession and your salarybyewatch your broadcastview on the hotel from the museum

General

For the event «Kulturnacht 2011» Brüderlin and Dätwyler elaborated a performance looking into the question as to what constitutes an event. They refer to Fluxus art, which - because of its accessability - can be mediated even to an art deprived audience of passers by.
The medium of Request: Event Score is www.justin.tv. Justin.tv is a browserapplication allowing its users to stream live broadcasts. It's mainly used to transmit strategy games from Asia or eventless broadcasts from private homes. In this performance, both the audience and the performers have their own TV-shows, which are viewable from outside over the internet.

Audience and performers are not present at the same location and are watching the respectively other channel via internet and projection. The audience in Langenthal was standing in the museum while both performers were located in nearby hotel Bären, which is situated right across the street and to which exists intervisibility to and from the museum.
By streaming one's own and downloading the other's broadcast there are delays in the connection emphasizing aspects of synchronicities in terms of Fluxus.

Part 1

During admission, Brigitte and Boris are sitting knitting on the bed in their hotel room. They then welcome the spectators and start moderating the evening in the style of a TV-show. They start talking about their motivation for the performance andlist the terms fun, idealism, fame & honour, money and responsability. Each of the terms is written on an evelope and being taped to the wall on top of the bed.The performers wonder what could be the motivation for the audience to have come to the museum. They explain cultural strategies for opening art to a larger public.

Part 2

Boris and Brigitte focus on Fluxus and exemplify the nature of an event score. For this purpose they execute two scores. The scores get chosen by coincidence: A person from the audience is asked to go to the large bowl standing on the floor in front of the projection. In that bowl there are 26 chosen scores of Fluxus artists. The person fishes a score from the bowl and reads it out loud. Boris and Brigitte draw matches to determine the first performer. When the first performance is over, the other performer reenacts a second score after another member of the audience has drawn one from the bowl.

Part 3

After the two scores the performers want to execute a third one together with the audience. In order to define the score, they have the audience voting on the five motivational sources. One after the other, Brigitte holds up the envelope while Boris is counting the hands held up to vote for the term in question. Each term represents a score written by the performers. When the poll is over, the score is conducted simultaneously in the hotel and the museum. At the end, Boris opens a window, Brigitte turns the webcam in directions of the window and the audience sees the windows of their room on the projection. Music is played and both performers are waving good-bye at the open window in direct visibility of the audience.

Request: Event Score from Brigitte Dätwyler on Vimeo.