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Continually silent and operating under no detectable rules of selection, plainly wrapped packages are slowly meted to the audience.

All for Free (Free for All?)

a durational performance by Andi Sutton and Catherine DŽIgnazio

On March 10 2007, Andi Sutton and Catherine DŽIgnazio stood resolutely in front of a pile of plainly wrapped packages and held up each in turn as if offering them for free to the audience. For most of those who accepted the invitation, the offer was then denied, sometimes quite vigorously. Their seduction of the audience by means of the enigmas these performer presented -- all turning out to be trivial items that can be obtained for free -- instilled a craving in the crowd that at times led to the breaking of the unstated rules of engagement.

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"All for Free (Free for All?)"

performers: Andi Sutton and Catherine D'Ignazio

camera and editing: Mike Hall

extra camera: Jim Manning

 

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