This is the first time intimate karaoke is used in a public presentation. The audience is asked to sing a karaoke song for Uterine Concert Hall. Here, the karaoke singer wears headphones in which they can hear the musical track that they’ve picked as well as their vocal track. The catch is that everyone else in the room only hears the singer’s voice. The ask here is for audience members to demonstrate their vulnerability while I am literally splayed out on a table offering myself for aural examination.

Presented at the Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs as part of SURVEIL/SURVEILLED conference by MDOC Storytellers’ Institute on June 8, 2018. The postmodern white gallery featured a wall of floor to ceiling windows, and the obvious location for me to be placed was the other side of these windows. The karaoke singers were inside of the gallery with their backs to me, facing a wall projection of karaoke lyrics.

Slideshow images courtesy of MDOC Storytellers’ Institute