NIPPING AT THE HEELS OF AUTOEROTICS AND ( SELF ) INTIMACY, “FLAMBOYANCE ( CALL AND RESPONSE ) “ IS A PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE THAT EXPLORES THESE SUBJECTS, AS WELL AS DESIRE, QUEERNESS, AND INEFFABLE RELATIONSHIPS OF THE IN-BETWEEN IN RELATION TO BEING WATCHED AND CLOSETING SET TO A VOICEOVER OF LETTUCE’S WRITING ENTITLED “IN SPITE OF OURSELVES ( CALL AND RESPONSE ), “ THE ARTIST INVITES THE AUDIENCE TO TAKE PART IN THE PIECE BY IMPARTING THEMSELVES TO THEIR DESIRE TO RESPOND : TO ACT IN RELATION TO.  LANGUAGE MADE MATERIAL, ALONGSIDE THOSE THAT COMPRISE THE INSTALLATION ( NAMELY THE MIRRORED CLOSET, SWATHS OF PINK BUBBLEWRAP, AND THE CELEBRATORY REMNANTS OF STEVE VILE’S “PLAYTIME “ ) BUILD A PLEASURE PLAYGROUND IN WHICH TO ENACT THE VARIOUS PERFORMATIVE “SCORES FOR INTIMACY” SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE WRITING WITH ( A ) CHOSEN PARTNER(S). AND THEN THERE IS LETTUCE, WHO -- IN THE FORM OF LONE A BUBBLEWRAP FLAMINGO -- DOES THESE SAME SCORES FOR INTIMACY, BUT ALONE,  WITH THEIRSELF IN THE MIRROR. THE SCIENTIFIC FACT OF FLAMINGOS’ MIRRORED-AUTOEROTICA-REACTIONARY   SURRENDERS ITSELF TO (IM)POSSIBILITIES OF THE PLEASURE IN BOTH BEING A THING THAT CAN BE SEEN ( BY YOUR SELF ) AND AN IMAGE ASPIRED TO -- "LONGING IN THE LENGTH OF LENDING MY VISION TO THE PANE OF GLASS THAT CATCHES ME AND LOOKS BACK.” WATCHING ONE’S SELF IN DESIRE, WATCHING ONESELF AS DESIRE, WANTING ( ONLY ) WHAT IS SEEN FOR ONESELF : THE FLAMINGO REVELS IN ITS SELF-GENERATED IMAGO. “FLAMBOYANCE ( CALL AND RESPONSE ) “ IS A CONSTRUCTED CARNIVAL OF PARTICIPATORY APPEARING THAT ASKS THE QUESTION IN WANTING : “WHO’S WATCHING WHO ? ”

( SIGH )
 
“DESIRE SURROUNDING, IT IS WANTON MIMICRY. ”