To go further with my abstraction, i argue that some performance/ installation pieces posed a relationship not particularly with narcissism but with its fraternal twin, indulgence, a phantasmagorical one.
Reuben's heavy use of banal yet loaded signifiers locates himself into a highly charged or a mythologically neutral position, a position that confirms no responsibility of the heavy chains of morality, ethics and meaning.
Derya's zine and blog had a furtive characteristic to it. I do agree that its encounter must be non-confrontational and its number must be limited. This restrictive element of accessibility upholds rarity, an underestimated value of objects including its encounter.
Grant asked some help to carry this tub. I agreed and wondered "Is he really fascinated by this?". After his performance, i then realized it is not as much as masturbatory as one might have initially read but rather his strange engagement with confines, the play that has happened with in and the carelessness or naivety that one might have forgotten.
In summary, one might argue that some of the pieces that i have chosen are rather installations. I do agree that they maybe looked as installations but what makes these pieces intriguing is its performative element.
When one witnesses a person committing in the act of indulgence, response and reaction become crucial and interchangeable variables, a validation that perspective may differ and pose as neutral while inherently considering its possible bearing of ethically negative or positive connotations. I see the difference on perspective being subjective, in contrast when juxtaposed for meaning being more subjective.
