I participated in two "public interventions" that my friend/classmate Megan had to do for her "Making and Meaning" class. These "interventions" were basically just little public stunts, loosely based on the work of performance artists. All three of her interventions were done on the PSU campus.
In the first, I recorded Megan in the space between Neuberger Hall and Smith Memorial Student Union, trying to GIVE people spare change. Not ask for spare change. Give it to them. No strings attached. People were very suspicious and hardly anyone accepted the change from her!
In the second, Megan recorded me wandering around the Park Blocks in a wolf costume, trying to interact with people. Some were unsettled, some were amused, most were blasé. This is downtown Portland. You see weirder stuff than this on a regular basis.
You can see Megan's 3rd intervention and other work by going to her blog ovah heah: meganart203.blogspot.com
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