Proposal Title
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Submission Type
Virtual Engagement Session
Start Date
18-7-2020 3:00 PM
End Date
18-7-2020 3:30 PM
Abstract
Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation is a real-time, online live performance that restages burrough and Starnaman’s browser-based poetic remix, Epic Hand Washing in a Time of Lost Narratives. In this 20-minute performance, participants will simultaneously wash their hands for twenty seconds while the hosts take turns reading quotes from novels, plays, poetry, and essays written during or about life during pandemics from the bubonic plague to the global influenza pandemic of 1918-19.
Our set of texts includes works written by authors such as William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, William Maxwell, and Giovanni Boccacio, who experienced outbreaks of yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) and the H1N1 influenza outbreak of 1918-19. These quotes address the horror of being sick, the fear of becoming infected, the grief of loss, as well as the mundane life of quarantine.
In the first four minutes of the online gathering, the hosts explain their browser-based speculative remix project. Two minutes are used to organize participants into groups, and two additional minutes are allotted for the groups to select the quote they would like to have read aloud. The remaining time is divided equally among the groups. Each group will wash their hands together for 20 seconds during which time a quote is read aloud. The hosts will record this performance as documentation of a live-from-our-kitchens happening.
Footage from this event will become an edited video and a provocation for viewers to consider the emerging pandemic narrative we are creating now.
Directions:
Prepare to wash your hands on Zoom in real time by setting up a camera to live stream or recruiting a person to film you near the sink.
Log into the Zoom link provided. Wash your hands on camera for 20 seconds while we read along with your performance.
This synchronous performance connects you to generations of individuals who have also endured life during a global pandemic. We recognize and honor this connection and our individual actions to take care of ourselves and others.
Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation
Epic Hand Washing for Synchronous Participation is a real-time, online live performance that restages burrough and Starnaman’s browser-based poetic remix, Epic Hand Washing in a Time of Lost Narratives. In this 20-minute performance, participants will simultaneously wash their hands for twenty seconds while the hosts take turns reading quotes from novels, plays, poetry, and essays written during or about life during pandemics from the bubonic plague to the global influenza pandemic of 1918-19.
Our set of texts includes works written by authors such as William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Katherine Anne Porter, William Maxwell, and Giovanni Boccacio, who experienced outbreaks of yersinia pestis (bubonic plague) and the H1N1 influenza outbreak of 1918-19. These quotes address the horror of being sick, the fear of becoming infected, the grief of loss, as well as the mundane life of quarantine.
In the first four minutes of the online gathering, the hosts explain their browser-based speculative remix project. Two minutes are used to organize participants into groups, and two additional minutes are allotted for the groups to select the quote they would like to have read aloud. The remaining time is divided equally among the groups. Each group will wash their hands together for 20 seconds during which time a quote is read aloud. The hosts will record this performance as documentation of a live-from-our-kitchens happening.
Footage from this event will become an edited video and a provocation for viewers to consider the emerging pandemic narrative we are creating now.
Directions:
Prepare to wash your hands on Zoom in real time by setting up a camera to live stream or recruiting a person to film you near the sink.
Log into the Zoom link provided. Wash your hands on camera for 20 seconds while we read along with your performance.
This synchronous performance connects you to generations of individuals who have also endured life during a global pandemic. We recognize and honor this connection and our individual actions to take care of ourselves and others.
Bio
xtine burrough is a new media artist, author, and Professor of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas. Sabrina Starnaman is a Clinical Associate Professor of Literary Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she recently won the University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teaching Award. Together they collaborate on social engagements at the intersection of literature, art, and technology. Their site, Visible Women, archives their works, which make the invisible visible.