Sunday, 11:00-12:30, Event Space
Challenging Seattle's vagrancy laws, which target homeless youth by making it illegal to sit or stand still on the street, artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry filmed 26 homeless young people standing for an hour each on the same square of sidewalk in performances dedicated to individual victims of gun violence.
The footage of the performances, accompanied by audio testimonies from each of the participants, is condensed: each person spends five minutes on screen as pedestrians stream by in the background. Raw and unsettling, the film highlights the negligence of the passerby even as it implicates the viewer who faces, and is faced by, the people on screen.
"Endurance" was commissioned by the ArtsUp program of the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and was created in conjunction with Peace on the Streets by Kids on the Streets (PSKS), a Seattle-based homeless youth advocacy organization. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The "Endurance" project also includes life-size photographs of the youth featured in the video. For more information, please visit: www.conjunctionarts.org/endurance.