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Some used video as medium and others used performance. All differ by its own execution and meaning. Its holistic thematic played on a certain disconnect: Yota's presented exercise, Jenny's manipulation of sound, Martina's punning and Patrick's reading from a blank page.

This disproportion was an accentuation, the necessary impetus for meaning and conceptual currency. Physical movement was present but was not necessary to convey the idea. There was a present willingness to be read in different levels. This produced a certain willingness to conform with disproportion. And most, if not all have performed it with a strong influence of absurdity.

Proposal

"Slippery Assumptions"

This is a performance piece that entails the displacement of fantasy. Here i will attempt to study the audience's subjectivity. It is generally an experiment on how meaning is derived from traces; traces being marks for direction, location and meaning. I will use semiotics with my material to represent the slipperiness of assumptions.

Budget = 45 dollars

- 10 bucks for bananas

- 10 bucks for cigarettes

- 5 bucks for transportation

- 15 bucks for costume rental

- 5 bucks for feel-good-chocolate-milk

Tech= spot light and cd player

Location= Room 406

Resume: http://francisportfolio.blogspot.com/

( i will attempt to look like this)

Subjectivity in its slipperiness and its ambiguity carries attributes of displacement. Especially in the realms of phantasm, one will perceive it differently than the other. One of the few reasons is history (or personal history). History and its relation to perception is the lens in which we try to study, justify and make meaning. Traces are signifiers of history. In the realms of phantasm as a thematic, meaning is a plethora or meaning means none.