Event Statement from March 2009

The Tableau Vivant you see here this evening is one chapter of an ongoing project exploring disassociations brought together into the same space. Social boundaries - between the private and the public, between the animal and the human, between the erotic and the desexualized - are suspended to capture subjects' contextual experience. The Delirium Constructions is an umbrella housing a number of smaller narratives now growing beyond the horizons of still photography. In each of these narratives, the scenarios are contrived but the emotions are real. In the past, The Delirium Constructions have found photographic form in both gallery and commercial work. The prints displayed demonstrate both trajectories. Earlier this winter, 35 people with distinctive visual personalities were brought together for a shoot. On March 14th 2009, this same cast will be assembled once again as a living, breathing image. The arrangement of the models will be inspired by the working-photographs generated during and surrounding our first gathering. The purpose of this tableau vivant is not merely to reconstruct the prior scene, but rather to allow viewers to join in, and to explore the mutual engagement between models and audience. Your complete range of response, be it unease, arousal, nonchalance, confusion and/or humor is integral to the work. Video collaborators will be documenting the experience of viewing and being viewed. Studies of the footage will serve as the essential building blocks for the project's next conceptual permutation. The silence of the tableau will be broken with an interlude as the models transition from performers to guests.