ONE
first performed on
September 8, 2011
Queensland Performance Arts Centre [QPAC], Brisbane, Australia
performed five times in 2011
REBECCA CUNNINGHAM
Brisbane, Australia
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ONE
REBECCA CUNNINGHAM
ONE is a performance that may take
ONE lifetime
ONE person sitting opposite
ONE person
there is ONE exchange
ONE sample of DNA is collected
if desired ONE sample of DNA is exchanged
this will happen ONE million times
until ONE million samples have been collected
once ONE million samples
from ONE million people have been collected each
DNA sample will be imaged and from ONE million DNA images
ONE will be made
a composite of all becoming ONE
This century, will we genetically modify food, pets, our children, ourselves? Information and sharing information is reaching immense speeds and saturation, but what happens to that gray area between public and private? When are our bodies our own, and when are we the property of the global social corpus? Living in times where we rarely put ourselves in situations where we need to trust each other, and in most cases given more reason to distrust, will you trust me with your most intimate material? Your DNA? ONE cannot exist without you.
“One” is a durational performance by me and all of you. This work will be performed repeatedly over the coming years.