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This performance consists of three parts. In the first, advertisements are read aloud from an electronics magazine while glowing rectangles are added to the projected wall above the performer. The audio begins looping over itself, constructing a chaotic sound composition of technological babble.

In part two, the performer walks back and forth across the stage while a small avatar follows directly above the performer's head graphically spitting the same words the performer is saying:

"Every Morning, I wake up, I get dressed, I brush my teeth,
and walk into the world growing full of glowing squares.
Every Day, I sit, and I am completely surrounded and supported.
Every Night, I get up, I walk home, I brush my teeth, I undress, and go to sleep".

On the right side of the projected background, the avatar walks into a small bedroom representing restless sleep. On the left, the character walks into a dark room engulfed by glowing rectangles. Between the rooms, the character walks with his head down, ignoring the environment above him. As the poem is read, the words being spoken are digitally animated to float from the top of the characters head.

In part three, the character levitates up through a vertical triptych, leaving an environment of glowing squares to float into a flood of light. Then, a new ambient space appears on the wall, and the performer reads excerpts from a book entitled "Eco-Psychology". Throughout the reading, the words being said are continuously collected above the performer's head, with each word flying aggressively back and forth to the performer's location on the stage.

The performance ends with hundreds of words flocking above the performer's head.


Self response to "Glowing Squares" performance:

Glowing Squares pt. II, "Therapy" (.mov)