The boy who cried banana

The boy who cried banana (or What happened during The Transmission)

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This video narrates the events that took place during The Transmission, a piece by Diego Chamy and Mike Majkowski.

The Transmission consisted of one person describing a performance to another person, who then had to realize the performance according to the description he/she received. Diego and Mike chose BANANA, a piece by the British artist Orion Maxted, which Diego had seen, but Mike hadn't. Diego described the performance to Mike, and Mike performed the piece according to Diego's description of it.

Diego invited Orion to come see the performance, but didn't tell him that Mike was going to perform a second-hand interpretation of his piece. What happened that evening and some ideas about it can be seen in this video as well as read about in this great text by Siân Robinson Davies.

Performed at KuLe, labor sonor series, Berlin, May 6, 2013

Check also BANANA's Facebook page and BANANA - the original performance by Orion Maxted, as performed by him in Houston.