Does the Show Need to Go On?

Performance slide lecture /Diavortrag
2006

The following questions were sent out via email:
/ Folgende Fragen wurden per Email verschickt:

• Do you like having your picture taken?
• Are photos better deliberate or spontaneous? (Posed or 'natural'?)
• Does the show need to go on?

The text of the lecture is a collage of answers received to these questions. The photos are of London actors posing for their portfolio.
/ Der Text der Vorlesung ist eine Collage aller Antworten auf diese Fragen. Die Fotos sind von Londoner Schauspielern die für ihre Mappe posieren.

"We could all have the night off and go fishing instead (...)

Are you looking at me? (...)

Photos only of the bits of me with no face on them, and from angles I’d never get to see in a mirror. (...)

Are calm waters deep? (...)

Is everything not as it seems? (...)

Is this your first time? (...)

There’s nothing like a natural spontaneous pose. It makes everyone in the industry jealous. (...)

You can take my picture when I’m happy. (...)

They remind me of how different I look, from how I think I look.(...)"

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