ugk's barking dog

This performance takes its title from UG Krishnamurti's claim that the mind is the real problem. His recorded voice played throughout the space, and I repeated his words a few seconds after he spoke them. The delay created a strange fracture. The audience heard the original thought, then heard me echo it, exposing the redundancy and absurdity of meaning-making. It was a vocal performance more than anything. The body remained present, but slightly off-beat, as if it were trying to keep up with a thought that had already passed. I gestured occasionally to the audience, but the primary tension came from the temporal gap between voice and echo. The piece questioned the validity of thinking itself. It treated words as symptoms of the mind struggling to stabilize itself. In the few seconds of delay, thought was revealed as mechanical, repetitive, slightly ridiculous. The audience confronted the machinery of belief and the emptiness behind the self's internal monologue. ugk's barking dog asked the audience to consider how much of our thinking is simply an echo of something we heard before.

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