Instructions:
Perform Duchamp’s painting Nu descendent un escalier no. 2 (Nude descending a staircase, No. 2), 1912
Jazz it up (run up concrete stairs off of the lobby, members from Headband Girls play their instruments jazz-style)
Reach the top of the staircase
Pause
Drone it down (navigate the staircase down with movement inspired by Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism; members from Headband Girls drone their instruments)
Reach the bottom of the staircase
Walk away
End of performance

Performed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta as part of College Night hosted by OMIGOD HELLO HOW ARE YOU to coincide with the High’s exhibition Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913>>2013, November 10, 2012.