Participatory Action

My participatory action is called Sleeping on Liacouras Walk. Here are the rules: first everyone would have to sit, stand, or lay some where on Liacouras Walk during a busy time of day. Second everyone would have a set time when they would pretend to fall asleep. Every ten seconds another bunch of us would fall asleep. Third after five minutes we would all wake up and walk away.

According to Nicolas Bourriaud intersubjectivity is a big part of relational aesthetics. This experiment would involve a lot of this. It would involve a lot of people being all together but some would be the artist (sleeping people) and others would be the viewers (people not in on it)

The point of this is to see how people who are not involved in our class would react. If one person fell asleep around there it would not be a big deal an nobody would really notice. But, what if every time you turned around you saw about ten more sleeping people? It would be interesting to see if people noticed and if they would think anything of it.