✎Title: “The Refuse Repeat”
✎Performance type: Flash mob with environmental purpose (26 minutes long)
✎Place: Quad, Syracuse University
✎When: Monday morning after weekend parties
✎Time: 1pm, once all students are sure to be awake
✎# Of people included: 40
✎Permit requested to:
Student Centers and Programming Services:
Anthony Otero,
Assistant Director of Events Scheduling
Em@il: aotero@syr.edu
Safety Department:
David E. Pajak
Director, Risk Management,
SU Safety Department, phone: 315-443-5474
For my performance art piece, I have decided to raise awareness to the amount of littering that is prominent on our school campus. After completing a class assignment and coming back from Oakwood cemetery on a Saturday, I walked along Comstock Ave. As soon as I passed the Woman’s Building near the brand new Life Sciences Complex, I became aware to the large quantities of party refuse that was left there from the night before. The trash included plastic red Dixie cups, crushed beer cans, cigarettes, fast food rappers and much more. Being that it is a very populated party street, the rubbish was prevalent on not just one side of the street, but on driveways, other side streets and on the other walkway. By completing my performance art piece, I wish not to raise awareness to the life style choices that students take but rather the mess they leave behind. I have careful crafted my performance to best metaphorically represent the situation.
The steps needed to prepare for my performance art piece are to buy a roll of black bin liners, find 40 students to partake, rubbish from the weekend past and permission to host this event on the quad. The first step to complete my piece would be to collect all of the weekend’s past refuse from Comstock and other party populated areas and place them in 40 separate black sacks. I chose black sacks because the color black represents evil and darkness, and I want to get the point across about the negative impacts that littering has on our university campus. I have decided to get 40 people partake in my performance art piece because there is 40% Greek life present in Syracuse University. As the main percentage of rubbish collects around areas such as “Frat Row”, I thought this number would be most appropriate. Finally, the Quad; the Quad backs onto an amazing 15 campus buildings. Not only that, but it connects to many populated areas such as College Place, the Schine Student Center and the Dome; truly the Quad is the heart of Syracuse University. Therefore, to reach and influence enough people on this matter, I would want to complete my performance on the Quad around mid-day.
Now, to the good stuff; the actual actions that I and the 39 other students will be completing will be a repetitive cycle for 26 minutes. I chose 26 minutes because of the 26 fraternities at SU, and as fraternities can host parties (sororities can only be included in the fraternities’ parties). All of the students will stand in a single-file line on the paths that cut across the Quad. Each participant will be wearing normal clothes to resemble how anyone can create litter and anyone can clean up this rubbish. Then, for the actual performance piece, the 40 participants will pour out their bag of rubbish onto the Quad and then slowly pick up each item, waiting for the other participants to finish. Once the rubbish has been picked up, the first person in the single-file line will drop their trash in their black sack on the ground and then the person next to them will, and then the person next to them will drop theirs, almost creating a wave effect, repeating this again for 26 minutes.
After the 26 minutes is over, the 40 students will disperse in different directions with their black sacks, similar to the flash mob performance art style. The End ☺
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