Performer/Audience/Mirror Part 2

Recorded at Video Free America in San Francisco, this work is a phenomenological inquiry into the audience/performer relationship and the notion of subjectivity/objectivity. Graham stands in front of a mirrored wall facing a seated audience; he describes the audience s movements and what they signify. He then turns and describes himself and the audience in the mirror. Graham writes: Through the use of the mirror the audience is able to instantaneously perceive itself as a public mass (as a unity), offsetting its definition by the performer ( s discourse). The audience sees itself reflected by the mirror instantly while the performer s comments are slightly delayed. First, a person in the audience sees himself objectively ( subjectively ) perceived by himself, next he hears himself described objectively ( subjectively ) in terms of the performer s perception.