21 cities at once performed

selected projects 09

2007-09-14T12:58:00.000-07:00

Helsinki | Inari Virmakoski will look at clouds and think of the participants of this project.

Washington + Brooklyn | Scott Lawrence (Washington) and Kevin Regan (Brooklyn) will simultaneously wet their pants.

Atlanta | Robert Cheatham and Sloane Robinson will send out a telepathic control system that spans globally. It will involve a geometric shape and an action.

New York | Sal Randolph will give someone money.

Atlanta | Kirstin Mitchell will pass out self addressed, stamped comment cards to bank tellers, friends, assholes in cars, etc.

Washington | Hope Hilton will design and conduct a silent walk.

Portland | Jenny Smith will be in Portland

selected projects 08

2007-09-14T06:39:00.000-07:00

Jacksonville | Ryle Eddings will write the word 'forever' in the sand at the beach.

Firenze | Luciano Ferra will force horses to swim

Atlanta | Kiki Hunt will construct a shirt and pair of shorts out of several different kinds of water soluble paper, and attend a show at the Drunken Unicorn for a night of indeterminate events that could or could not dissolve her garments.

Phoenix | While fashioning a bracelet inscribed with the name 'Rudy,' Justin Greg will walk around his neighborhood contemplating things and take pictures.

Brooklyn | Anna Lise Jensen will find a neighborhood stranger to document her giving Alvin, a fourth month old rescue dog with demodex mange, a Histacalm bath in her bathroom.

selected projects 07

2007-09-12T11:59:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn | During rush hour, Nathan Hiemstra will strategically drive in order to be the first car in a left turn lane at a red light. As people on the other side of the intersection make their left turns, he will take pictures of them if they make eye contact.

Managua | Jessica Hirst will design actions and instant message them to friends in New York and San Diego. She will also received designed actions to manifest from friends.

Lexington | Senom Yalcin will walk around asking people who their favorite loved ones are and where the live.

Brooklyn | Julie Schumacher will post posters that say 'i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you i love you.'

Atlanta | Maxwell Sebastian and Mandie Turner Mitchell will paint and booze it up in their studio.

selected projects 06

2007-09-09T08:53:00.000-07:00

Middletown | Katherine Young will air a 25 second morse code translation of a phrase from Kelly Lik's short story 'The Girl Detective' on WESU 88.1 in Middletown, Connecticut (wesufm.org).

New York | Matthew White and Eva Jung, along with seven other participants, will enter separate subway cars, place needles on portable record players and listen to music.

Atlanta | Elizabeth and Phyl Grant - Hilton will kiss.

New York | Nicholas Weist, along with his sister and two friends, will read passages from their favorite books to each other.

Chaing Mai | Champa Dan will meditate and offer his english speaking skills and talk to tourists interested in Buddhism.

to participate please see our call for entries

selected projects 05

2007-09-08T08:56:00.000-07:00

San Francisco | Lori Gordon will put a sign in her office window for people to read

Atlanta | Elia Eidelman will buy a lottery ticket that will determine bus routes. He will write a letter on a bus, map the route and immediately mail the two objects to his first love.

Herzelya | Shiri Sandler will read a love story to her lost love in New York

Chicago | Nayt Hiemstra will be busy

Brooklyn | Ashley Neese will think of her brother, who is currently in Iraq

THERE IS NO DEADLINE!

2007-09-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

selected projects 04

2007-09-07T09:08:00.000-07:00

Southborough | Michael Blunk and others will bike down Main Street with silk neckties as handlebar streamers and one around their necks, acting as a head 'band.'

Chicago | Keith Sullivan will eat fare and drink libations at his old friend's pre-wedding dinner.

Atlanta | Misty Harper and others will dress up and clean parking lots and sidewalks.

New York | Alan Bajandas will wonder the streets for twelve straight hours, writing on practically every surface and object he encounters.

Jackson | Marshall Avett and Stewart Voegtlin will play various instruments in public, serve six-month-old cole slaw, and go see the Jackson Red Devils' first home football game.

to participate please see our call for entries

selected projects 03

2007-09-04T12:31:00.000-07:00

San Juan | Abdiel D. Segarra and others will spread rumors of a fake art fair.

Atlanta + Berlin | John Lowther (Atlanta) and Susanne Balke (Berlin) will have drinks inside rotating restaurants in their respective cities, while reading from themes of love and simultaneity.

San Francisco | James Obed will take a bike ride.

New York | Sarah Karp will interview people on the sidewalk.

Rotterdam | Inge Hoonte will be a tourist in her own country, recording a conversation with her friend Ilse.

to participate please see our call for entries

selected projects 02

2007-09-03T09:13:00.000-07:00

Transient | Mark Little will drive his 68 year old mother to Andrews, North Carolina. His mom will visit her best friend from childhood Gay Francis.

Brooklyn | Tina Manwarren Roche-Kelly will install + perform guerilla crochet and teach interested strangers how to crochet.

Middletown | Brian Parks and Janet Simone Parks will compose essays upon olympia and royal typewriters (respectively) in the courtyard of weeks hall, one of several abandoned structures comprising the former Connecticut Hospital for the Insane.

Transient | Shana Wood will film while driving on a 3 minute super 8 roll.

Atlanta | Daniel Clay will hold a spoon carving demonstration in one parking space in a walmart parking lot.

Los Angeles | Adam Overton will talk to people

participating projects

2007-09-02T11:48:00.000-07:00

Hello

Every day until the September 14th we will be posting a handful of projects that are involved in '21 cities at once performed.' If you are interested in joining, please send us an email at 21citiesatonceperformed@gmail.com.

Thank you and continue to visit us!

to participate please see our call for entries

selected projects 01

2007-09-02T10:33:00.000-07:00

Portland | Varinthorn Christopher will be visiting an office building next to where she lives and tell them to turn their lights and computers off at night, and proceed to eat ice cream with some homeless people while not talking about being homeless.

Japan | Caitlin Stokes will hand out ee cummings poems in a grocery store.

Atlanta | Blake Williams will film a wedding rehearsal

New York | Anna Barnett will play her ukulele on a park bench- email us if you would like to join her

Transient | Kimberly Ellen Hall and her partner Justin will be on a plane while recording sounds and thinking about durational space.

Brooklyn | Bibi Calderaro will stand on a milkcrate reading Joseph Beauys. There will be a megaphone next to her that will not be used.

San Juan | Denise Santiago will hang out with stray dogs.

Bergen | Karl Eidelmen will hold a master class on starting rumors, and participants will start rumors throughout the town

time zones for participants

2007-08-30T10:27:00.000-07:00

call for entries

2007-08-20T13:30:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
INHABITING THE FOLLOWING CITIES + SURROUNDING AREAS:

ATLANTA | BARCELONA | BERLIN | CAIRO | CHICAGO | LEIPZIG | HELSINKI JOHANNESBURG | LOS ANGELES | MEXICO CITY | NEW YORK CITY PORTLAND | REYKJAVÍK | SAN FRANCISCO | SANTIAGO | SAO PAOLO SEOUL | SINGAPORE | STOCKHOLM | WASHINGTON DC | TOKYO

We are thinking about each other and we are performing and we are all doing it at once, together.

On Friday, September 14, 2007, at 6pm EST, we invite you to participate in a global performance event. Please consider contributing to a series of projects happening simultaneously in 21 cities around the world as part of Conflux Festival (www.confluxfestival.org). It doesn’t need to be difficult: you could sweep your kitchen, read a story to a group of children or have a party. You might sneak love notes into the pockets of jeans at the Gap or direct a walking tour of your neighborhood (further examples are listed in the project description below). It’s less about what you do and more about the doing, and the awareness that every participant is contributing a project at the same time. Each project will be documented and presented on WWW.21CITIESATONCEPERFORMED.INFO ***

• TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE REPORT BACK TO US BY AUGUST 31 @ 21citiesatonceperformed@gmail.com WITH YOUR NAME, EMAIL, MAILING ADDRESS AND POTENTIAL IDEAS; WE ASK FOR CONCRETE IDEAS TO BE DEVELOPED BY SEPTEMBER 4th TO BE INCLUDED IN A PUBLICATION/ANNOUNCEMENT WITH A MAP OF PARTICIPANTS, WHICH WE WILL DISTRIBUTE (you will get copies); YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MEET 09/04 DEADLINE TO PARTICIPATE

• ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2007 AT 6PM EST MAKE IT HAPPEN

• REPORT BACK TO US ABOUT YOUR PROJECT AT 21citiesatonceperformed@gmail.com WITH ANY DOCUMENTATION TO BE POSTED ONLINE; AS A PARTICIPANT WE ASK THAT YOU SUBMIT DOCUMENTATION IN THE FORM OF VIDEOS, PHOTOS, SOUND, WRITING, DRAWINGS, ETC.

We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks,
HOPE HILTON + NAT SLAUGHTER
21 CITIES AT ONCE PERFORMED
PLEASE DIRECT ALL CORRESPONDENCE + QUESTIONS TO 21citiesatonceperformed@gmail.com

*** if you know of anyone that might be interested please forward this along to them

PROJECT DESCRIPTION |

21 cities at once performed: a performative, global network where participants create public intersections to occur simultaneously around the world

PROJECT SUMMARY |

Invited multi-disciplinary participants from 21 cities around the world will contribute individual public projects that comprise one connected, simultaneous event.

As a curatorial collective, we are interested in wireless network systems existing not only through the use of computers and the internet, but through a human awareness of simultaneous participation and collective consciousness.

The invited participants experiment with anthropology, architecture, cartography, design, graffiti, kinetics, musical performance, sound and text. There will be walking tours through Seoul, silent meditation in Brooklyn, music in Helsinki, a parade in Chicago… We include these intersections not only as part of our investigation into psychogeography as a global phenomenon, but also to contribute to a networking system that exists within and without technology — public activity in which the experience is more heightened by being aware of its relationship to other simultaneous public activities.

Linking all of these events is a prescribed date and starting time (i.e., all projects are committed to beginning at 18:00 EST and the equivalent moment in other time zones). Serving as an announcement tool, archive, and network, www.21citiesatonceperformed.info is a blog that will complete the connections with maps, sounds and other documentation of performances.

EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS:

- HUG SOMEONE
- SING A SONG OUT OF YOUR WINDOW/ SERENADE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
- FOLLOW SIGNS AROUND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE THEY ARE GIVING YOU INSTRUCTIONS
- PLAY A SHOW WITH YOUR BAND
- DRAW A HOPSCOTCH GAME WITH CHALK AND INVITE PASSERBY TO PLAY
- HAVE A CANDLELIGHT PICNIC WITH YOUR FRIENDS ON A BASKETBALL COURT
- MAKE POSTERS ABOUT YOUR PARENTS
- DRESS IN A COSTUME AND DANCE AT MACDONALDS
- WALK DOWN THE STREET WITH A BOOMBOX PLAYING LOUD MUSIC
- HUG A TREE
- POST AN AD ON CRAIGSLIST INVITING PEOPLE TO DO YOGA IN THE PARK
- FILL UP A GROCERY CART WITH VITAMINS, WALK AROUND, THEN PUT THEM BACK
- MEMORIZE A MONOLOGUE FROM A MOVIE WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND AND PERFORM IT
- MAKE A FLAG AND PLACE IT CEREMONIOUSLY
- WRITE NOTES AND PLACE THEM IN PUBLIC RESTROOMS
- MEDITATE

map of participating cities

2007-08-01T10:30:00.000-07:00

21 cities at once performed

2007-07-24T14:44:00.000-07:00

21 cities at once performed : a performative, global network where invited

participants create public intersections to occur simultaneously around the

world

Invited multi-disciplinary participants from 21 cities around the world will

contribute individual public projects that comprise one connected, simultaneous

event.

As a curatorial collective, we are interested in wireless network systems

existing not only through the use of computers and the internet, but through a

human awareness of simultaneous participation and collective consciousness.

The invited participants experiment with anthropology, architecture,

cartography, design, graffiti, kinetics, musical performance, science, sound and text.

There will be an algorithmic parade through Seoul, silent walking tours in Williamsburg,

an outdoor party with live music in Helsinki and other public interventions.

We include these intersections not only as part of our investigation into

psychogeography as a global phenomenon, but also to contribute to a

networking system that exists within and without technology - public activity in

which the experience is heightened by being aware of its relationship to

other simultaneous public activities.

Linking all of these events is a prescribed date and starting time (i.e.: all

projects are committed to beginning at 18:00 EST and the equivalents of that

moment in other time zones, which we will direct). Serving as an announcement

tool, archive, and network, www.21citiesatonceperformed.info will complete the

connections with maps, sounds and other documentation of performances.