Documentaries on Duet Performances

Elsa & Laiya

In Laiya and Elsa’s performance, they set up the shooting studio in the dark, with a lamp to light up the background, which fill of posters; as Laiya shooting photo of Elsa, she also tells what posture Elsa should post. The main idea that I get is that the photographer is trying to make model post like the model in the background poster, but the model didn’t do a good job because that’s not who she is, so the photographer is making her to be someone she’s not. This performance also reflects to daily life, when people trying to be something that they are admire or look up to, while they are pretending to be that someone, they have discarded their own personalities, and forget the fact that every person has individual strengths within them.

Jacobo & Zac

For Jacobo and Zac’s performance, a paper notice post on their body says “feel free to write on the sticker the first thing that comes into your mind when you see the performance. How does it make you feel? Now put the sticker on my body”. In result, every class student had written something on the sticker and stick on their body. I think this performance took a lot of courage for people to perform in a public space, when I first saw this performance, I felt shock to see people taking off clothes for their performance, but later when I’m cover from shocking, and people start to write down their feeling and thoughts on the sticker. This performance is actually very interesting to me; it’s shocking, but also simple to records people’s reactions, and fresh to sees something that’s much unexpected, so I think this performance is very unique.