Sculpture Center looking for interviewees for performance piece summer of 2013

via: The Sculpture Center

INVITATION FROM SUSAN BYRNES Performance artist Susan Byrnes is creating an interactive performance piece, Mending Is Better Than Ending. If you would like to participate, simply record your responses and email them to susanbstudio@gmail.com. Describe specific places and details about Cleveland that make it important/special to you - details you love that make it feel like home to you - particularly ordinary, everyday things you really like or notice about Cleveland. Your interview will be remixed and edited anonymously.    It only takes 3 steps to participate! 1.Find somebody with an iPhone or smart phone with a recording function, or somebody with a digital audio recorder.     2.In a quiet spot, record yourself (you can also interview others!) answering the following questions: (Please answer with specific details important to you, as opposed to general (for example - an  answer of " the exhibit of the whale skeleton in the museum of natural history is my favorite" is more helpful than the response "I love all the great museums we have.") Name and occupation (This is optional and all responses will be used as anonymous voices, but if you would like to be thanked at the exhibition for participating, please include this.) Where is your favorite street corner in the city? Why? Do you have a treasured possession that originated in Cleveland? What is it and where did it come from? What does Cleveland sound like? Where do you go in the city to get revived/restored/revitalized? Do you have a favorite view of Cleveland? Where is it and why is it important to you? 3.Send your recording to Susan. If you have an audio recording device or a smart phone, save as an mp3 file, upload for free any file smaller than 50 mb to www.yousendit.com and share with Susan via email atsusanbstudio@gmail.com. If you don't have a smartphone or audio recording device, and/or want to arrange for Susan to interview you, email her by May 1st and you can set up a time to meet during the month of May 2013. As the final performance of the 2013 W2S Performance Series Susan is inviting Clevelanders of all ages to join her at The Sculpture Center on Saturday, July 27 from 2-6 in the afternoon to help her build an audio "house" and to decorate it with painted words and ideas about Cleveland.