Help!

Do you remember the class exercise?

The exercise that happened outside the class, in the space between buildings?

What’s left of that –somewhat boring— exercise?

I have some notes made when meeting with Ally and Daniel a few days before the actual

performance. (See photo insert of the yellow note book with scribbles on it)

I kept the instructional cards, conceptualized and designed by A, D and F.

I kept the bare cards and the ones with handwritten words during the exercise. They are placed on floor the actual location of the exercise.

I am not sure if these are all the cards.

(See photo insert of the yellow cards, small envelopes.)

I have the “comprehensive photo” archive available both in digital photos and in a “short film” documenting the same source: (to be attached by someone who really knows how to do this)

Times & Dates:

The exercise took place on the 1^st of February, 2005 AD

The White Canvas Wall, (with the three holes cut in it), “lived” for almost a month in front of the Graduate Student Office door.

On Thursday, the 24^th of February I see this text on the above mentioned canvas: “Help, Florentina” or “Florentina, Help” above the top hole. Underneath the same hole I read , “Daniel”. I remember Ljubi and Rachel writing on the white canvas, right above the top hole.

In the photo below (taken at the end of the exercise by the undersigned), you will be able to decipher a faint “Daniel”, all written in upper case. I make the assumption that he might have written the note. I am not sure, yet.

Who wrote what?

On Sunday, I go back to take a photo, but the “Three Hole Punched White Canvas” is not there anymore.

What do we make of the objects left behind of a performance, even as tiny as this?

Do the objects alter and reveal meaning after the facto?

Are objects as ephemeral as the performance itself?