Performed as part of the NAE Open at New Art Exchange on 19 May 2023.
Contains a reference to suicide.
'Joe Drinks Wine and Gives Themsleves a Haircut’ (spelling mistake intentional) is a live performance where Joe cuts their hair live on stage along to a pre recorded poetic inner monologue examining the thoughts and feelings of various different people as they reflect on the past few years, the length of time it takes to grow the hair currently on Joe's head (~18 months as of writing this). The poetry inside their head rolls between the topics of modern life, pollution, the internet, childhood, and anything and everything in between, ebbing and flowing in a stream of consciousness style, being heard by the audience as Joe's inner monologue, around which Joe cuts their hair with scissors and clippers. At the end the monologue ends and the hair is swept up and the stage cleared. The work has a meditative, calming quality and the audience is encouraged to watch or listen to the performance in any way that they might want to. In it's live setting, it serves as a readymade behaviour.
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