Vigilantes : a dream of reasons

a series of in-flight performances on airplanes between Toronto, Montreal, and Chicago, Bruguera made three trips, and “ the plane was the site of her performance intervention, and so there was no audience except for the people who were sitting next to her on the plane. Somebody in one aisle can be an audience member while somebody in the next aisle will remain oblivious. This clandestine performance is and is not in a public space – air travel may well be accessible to anybody who can afford it. However, not only are airplanes owned by mega-corporations, but the very idea of “intervention” on an airplane course suggests such loaded verbs and nouns as “hijack”, “terrorist” and all the other bad words that Bruguera, Duff, and others are committed to deflating. Also, parallel to much ephemeral and performative art, the documentation of the event – the artists’ publication – will be available to a much wider audience than the performative gesture itself.