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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Public Intimacy: The Shrinking Space of Privacy
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Two women occupying a plinth barely big enough for one person, for 11 days, is an act of public intimacy. Coexisting was a performance work by the Australian artists Clark Beaumont, one of the 13 Rooms curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist in Sydney in 2013.1 For the 11 days of the exhibition, Clark Beaumont sat on the tiny plinth, enduring discomfort, squirming for position in the restricted space. A historical reference point for this prolonged act of sitting is the fifth-century Christian ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who perched on top of a pillar for many years. A significant difference in this case, however, is that the sitting is done by two people, not one (see Figure 6.1).