TUESDAY May 23rd Part B

photo: Suzanne Caines in RELOCATION

Part B: Edmonton Centre Mall

This is Day 3 of RELOCATION. It is an Intervention Performance
work by Suzanne Caines that could also be
viewed/framed as Relational Performance.
Suzanne performed Day 1 & 2 at
West Edmonton Mall (world's largest)
but today has re-located
to Edmonton Centre.

Dressed in neutral office gear and a clipboard,
Suzanne approached people as any other surveyor/market researcher
has done in everyone's experience at the mall.
Except Suzanne asked questions about home and community:
"where are you from? when did you leave?
what do you miss about the place you left?
how do you replace this in Edmonton?"
During these conversations with perfect strangers,
there were many intimate and poignant moments
in this constructed discussion about what "home" means
that raised many questions about what we mean
by home or by domesticity.

Lisa (of Visualeyez crew) discreetly videotaped
some exchanges in the mall
without the surveyed knowing this was being done.
Lisa did not hide but was far enough away to be
so discreet that she was not noticed.
Lisa and I took some stills like undercover agents
or private detectives (ie. camera under our coat,
or lens out of our purse; pretending to be
mom & daughter tourists shooting pix
under pervasive Go Oilers flags).
The audio was captured by wireless microphone
on Suzanne's clipboard.

Suzanne shall present a few clips of RELOCATION
(video documentation of her performances) at Latitude 53
Wednesday May 24th after the 8:00 pm screening of
CLEANING AND LOVING (IT)
with Little Performance by Todd and moi.
You should come. Totally.