Increasingly, in the city, you are on display. These women eat their lunch in a display window, like mannikens promoting the baguettes and soup of the luncheonette. They have become desensitized to the fact of their display, and carry on unselfconsciously while the lighting, framing, public-facing context of their lunch turns it into a theatrical performance for the passers-by. What if bystanders were encouraged to vote for their favorite window lunch performance?
Thursday, April 8, 2010
American Idyll - lunch as performance art
Increasingly, in the city, you are on display. These women eat their lunch in a display window, like mannikens promoting the baguettes and soup of the luncheonette. They have become desensitized to the fact of their display, and carry on unselfconsciously while the lighting, framing, public-facing context of their lunch turns it into a theatrical performance for the passers-by. What if bystanders were encouraged to vote for their favorite window lunch performance?
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