Alistair Gentry |
KITSUNE YORU/FOX NIGHT: Workshop, group performance, video, photography, real world role-playing Videos of group urban exploration during the city’s quietest and emptiest times, between 3 a.m. and dawn. A few people and businesses always work through the night, but during this time most of us are not shoppers, workers or travellers. If we are not shopping, working or travelling then we become free to explore the city in a way that more closely resembles the usually unseen urban animals that live all around us: a stray cat or a fox. We can approach shop windows closely and stare for as long as we wish, without any desire (or ability) to buy anything. We can stop when and where we choose to, without obstructing or annoying anyone. We can touch and caress posters, sculptures or trees in the street. We can momentarily imagine ourselves as wild animals, characters in a film, aliens, archaeologists, survivors of some disaster. We can examine the odd things that people sometimes abandon or lose in the street. Being a “night fox” can also be eerie and disturbing. FOX NIGHT jolts us out of our familiarity with our environment and the ordinary objects that we usually ignore.
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