Untitled Event

By Miriam Karraker
Assemble two performers and a large pile of   books.
Beside Performer A: the pile of books.
Beside Performer B: some space.
The two performers should face one another.

Performer A: open a book and read aloud.
Performer B: snatch the book from Performer A’s hands, toss it aside.

Repeat until Performer A has run out of books.
Experiment with timing, presence.

Notes:

Another variation of this piece was co-created and performed by Matthew Bussa, Emma Post, and Miriam Karraker in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 8, 2018

Miriam Karraker writes about the collaborative process behind this piece here.

Source: Poetry (November 2021)