This performative installation divided the NCAD gallery space into two parts. Deploying the experience of waiting and transplanting it to the gallery environment, the exhibition looked for a creative tension between a waiting subject – dependent on others to release them from a form of confinement – and that of the seeking subject – actively looking for answers through theory. Liminality invited gallery goers to inhabit the role of a (hospital) visitor and/or to conditionally donate their physical presence, their self, to the project. Participants of parallel discursive events explored such questions as : What is a subject? What is signified by intersubjectivity? What are the implications of mutual interdependence? There was an urgency to such questions given our current socio-political climate
Viewers were invited to participate in the project by taking part in the discursive seminars or by stepping into the artist shoes as part of the installation, thus creating a flawed simulacra of a donation process. No appointments were necessary to take part.
