Art That Consumes Life

While drinking with Josh at Sweeney's (that establishment dear to all, even though the service continues its steady decline), we laid the groundwork for an art movement best described by its credo: Art that consumes life.

The aim of this proposed movement is to push the ratio of experience to creation closer to one. In other words, to create art that takes as much time to experience as it does to create. We propose doing this by producing long, uncut art films because film makes the most overt claim on the prolonged attention of an art patron. Below, I list three ideas for such films.

1. Traffic. Film the uncut experience of a trip to a major city during rush-hour using two cameras. One camera would film the "hood ornament" view of traffic while the other would film the face of the driver. When displayed, the two films would run screens set side-by-side.
2. Eye of the Stalker. Using an actress who has volunteered to be the subject for such a film, follow and film the subject for an uncut, 24 hour period without making contact.
3. Decomposition. Film the body of a deceased individual who has donated their body to art as it decays for a month in the wild. The exhibit would consist of a screen displaying the uncut, month-long film scored with the recorded oral history of the subject's life.