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Public informal discussions
Private formal construction of structure
Actions in public with structure in various states of completion
Collaboration through discourse
An everyday thought with subjective implications: make your own prison.
( I built a box the size of the limits of my own body)
Final outcome: Breakout
As with some other works at this time the subject was initially conceived in terms of a vital simplicity. The process activated a greater complexity through interactions with audiences in the natural course of learning in time.
As with all durational works, time adds a greater element of generosity to how a work is given and received.
The event was not exclusively something preconceived and then performed, although it was partly that, but more in the ways in which a commonplace democratic discourse actuated collective understanding.