Sticks and Stones

For our endurance piece, we chose to create a ritualistic setting where we continually preformed actions that were completely futile. As the title suggests, we wanted to show how pointless petty arguments were, and that when two people argue, they get nowhere. We felt that by only taking from the other person's rock pile and not giving from our own, we represented how in arguments, people tend to only think of what they want and not what the other person may need. Furthermore, we felt that the silence, lack of physical contact, and lack of eye contact were the perfect metaphors for the way that people act when they are in a perfectly pointless fight with each other. Overall, the theme of the piece was that arguing tends to go nowhere and accomplish nothing. Photos of our performance, taken by Sam Sloan, are displayed below.