Fair Warning in Selling

In the set up of “Fair Warning in Selling”, a group of audience members are invited to join the auction to purchase dance pieces gathered by the auctioneer. Once the gavel hits the wood, congratulated purchasers of each piece will receive an “ownership certificate” of the piece, and have an exclusive opportunity to grab a drink with the artist(s). 

Through exploring the idea of consumption, evaluation, possession, and appropriation, this performance questions what the act of owning signifies. Especially when it’s a dance piece, when the value is immaterial, how do you own something so valuable yet so intangible? In the first place, how do you know something is valuable? In a satirical manner, it attempts to shed light on the performance art market, where our passion, interest, identity, trauma, and so on are being traded as forms of value across the world.

18:00

✴︎ 45 min

Credits

Auctioneer/Concept: Mashiro Tamura | (This work was started as a solo creation task within P.A.R.T.S. curriculum) | Mentored by Diane Madden | Theoretical suggestions by Bojana Cvejić and Stefa Govaart | With external support from Beatrice Zaveckaite, Alba Díaz Muñoz, Takudzwa James Felo, Guilherme Carvalho, Rozálie Stárová, Kim Ramiandrisoa, Nicolas Dang, and all the beautiful customers who participated in the previous auctions