Public Demands » An Audience Project by Jason Sweeney | Part of the P4 (Pilot) Live Art Program

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Demand #359 : Devise a 3 minute performance about unreasonable demands

Demand #355 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about the way your feet ache after a hard day working in a shop

“After Hours” All day standing I stand to serve you For fear of falling down All day standing I stand to serve you For fear of falling down Oh counter, hold me …

Demand #354 : Write a relentless list about Rock Hudson’s dinner jacket

1 In this photo Rock is being held by Jane Wyman, his jacket out of frame 2 In this photo Rock is surrounded by men in …

Demand #349 : Devise a 3 minute performance about submerging inflatables in public swimming areas

Demand #347 : Make a structuralist film about fighting homophobia

Demand #345 : Devise a 3 minute performance about yourself as a contestant on Blankety Blanks

Demand #341 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about Thom Yorke

“T.E.Y” Eye fixed shut From school to school A car crash Too drunk to care And froze up On self-destruct Still reach and sustain A skip divided A cymbal rush A skip divided A cymbal rush

Demand #340 : Write a relentless list about reasons for missing class

Other people’s children (repeat this, ad nauseum, over and over, with no exceptions)

Demand #333 : Create an immersive sound piece about writing demands in chalk on a board

Demand #332 : Devise a 3 minute performance about the rewriting of Tim Winton’s Dirt Music

Demand #327 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about a bee with no sting

“Oh Melipona” Melipona Subtropical life Wooden box found Propolis bled Emerge from a cell Honey bee gone again (Where is your sting?)

Demand #324 : Make a structuralist film about YOUR PET (OR SOMEONE ELSE’S IF YOU DON’T HAVE ONE)

Demand #321 : Write a relentless list about why it’s good to be alive

• Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, a 1974 book by Piers Paul Read which documented the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight …

Demand #316 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about being independently wealthy

“Unbalanced Reward” A money trail will follow you wherever you go A money trail will follow you wherever you go A life of guarantees will await you A life …

Demand #315 : Write a relentless list about all the people who have wronged you

Mark / Janice / Brett / Lee / Jason / The Maths Teacher Who Threw The Duster At Me In Year 8 / The Australian Education System / The Bad Grandfather / JC …

Demand #311 : Create an immersive sound piece about Tilda Swinton in Orlando

Same person. No difference at all. Just a different sex.

Demand #302 : Make a structuralist film about cyan

Demand #308 : Devise a 3 minute performance about white lies

Demand #290 : Devise a 3 minute performance about your favourite percussion instrument

Demand #299 : Write a relentless list about border disputes

• a possession of resources • a possession of rivers • a possession of land • dispossession of culture • a dispute of culture • a dispute of religion • driven …

Demand #293 : Make a structuralist film about oscillate wildly

Demand #282 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about loud and ignorant people with obnoxious opinions

“Ignorant Arrogant” It’s people like you Who clear a room You know who you are (And you never leave, you never leave) You stand in a corner Still drinking beer So full …

Demand #278 : Create an immersive sound piece about love

Demand #276 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about Bacchanalia

“Demons In Their Eyes” The fuel that drives the crowd Debased by ecstasy and booze All burning with desire And seized by madness and lust Reminds me of the streets …

Demand #275 : Devise a 3 minute performance about resisting the temptation of a flirtatious, charming young admirer

Demand #272 : Make a structuralist film about dancersize

Demand #269 : Create an immersive sound piece about blunt instruments

Demand #267 : Devise a 3 minute performance about violent outbursts

Demand #261 : Make a structuralist film about government cuts to welfare

Demand #258 : Create an immersive sound piece about The Common Koel

Demand #253 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about Roget’s Thesaurus

“15,00o Words” What’s another word for ‘cluster’? Shaped by subdivided colour Are we classified by systems? Do we observe closed editions? We view multiple divisions And verbal classifications 15,000 words and growing 15,000 …

Demand #252 : Write a relentless list about compulsion

01 obsessive 02 distressing 03 uneasy 04 repetitive 05 repetitive handwashing 06 fervent religious belief 07 apprehension 08 fear 09 fearful 10 extensive hoarding 11 worry 12 intrusive thoughts 13 sexual preoccupations 14 impulse for aggression 15 related compulsions 16 …

Demand #248 : Make a structuralist film about chaos theory

Demand #244 : Devise a 3 minute performance about your history in performance so far

Demand #240 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about that loaded space between suspecting and knowing

“He Sleeps Around” I’ve suspected it Without knowing it Lovers come and they go I’ve got a photograph And a hard disk with Evidence of your infidelity I’ve got the private Investigation To prove …

Demand # 239 : Create an immersive sound piece about rain and associated metaphors

Demand #233 : Devise a 3 minute performance about how Sir David Attenborough, Prince Charles & Henry Rollins are all very excellent and inspiring

Demand #238 : Write a relentless list about eating a falafel with Graham Kennedy in a graveyard

1 bawdy, irreverent, iconoclastic, often smutty, sometimes deliberately camp, and laden with innuendo and double-entendre 2 to be eaten alone with a (blank) in a graveyard 3 …

Demand #232 : Create an immersive sound piece about longing and excess

Demand #231 : Devise a 3 minute performance about not wanting to go

Demand #230 : Make a structuralist film about the police in South Australia

WARNING: Contains coarse language.

Demand #225 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about the backlash against postmodernism

“Anti-Ideology In Reverse” Metaphysical Not so cynical A failed wisdom Vain indifference Blurred in obscurity Self-referential Social apathy Non-activity Non-political Reason disappeared Ideology Lost for meaning, lost for meaning There’s no freedom Lies within a truth Dignity zero, dignity zero Progress …

Demand #223 : Create an immersive sound piece about being held

Demand #219 : Devise a 3 minute performance about hating your day job

Demand #217 : Make a structuralist film about the moment of divine revelation

Demand #218 : Write a relentless list about time

11:11 12:12 13:13 14:14 15:15 16:16 17:17 18:18 19:19 20:20 21:21 22:22 23:23 00:00 01:01 02:02 03:03 04:04 05:05 06:06 07:07 08:08 09:09 10:10 01:11 02:22 03:33 04:44 05:55 12:22 13:33 14:44 15:55 00:12 01:23 02:34 03:45 04:56 06:54 05:43 04:32 03:21 02:10 12:02 13:03 14:04 15:05 16:06 17:07 18:08 19:09 20:02 21:01 22:02 23:03

Demand #216 : Create an immersive sound piece about Dale Cooper in the black lodge

Demand #208 : Devise a 3 minute performance about dancing yourself to death

Demand #214 : Make a structuralist film about No!

Demand #215 : Write a relentless list about spit or swallow in all things

01 Spit 02 Depends how much cash you’ve got 03 Swallow nobody 04 I spit 05 Swish it round your mouth and tongue then spit it out 06 It has …

Demand #210 : Create an immersive sound piece about gnosticism

Demand #195 : Make a structuralist film about RNA

Demand #204 : Write a relentless list about the night sky

01 At this time of year, five constellations form a line descending from the zenith down to the west-northwest horizon shortly after dark. Near the …

Demand #199 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about how you feel assembling a difficult piece of IKEA furniture

“Assemble and Forget” Screwdrivers and wrenches Flat-packed and ready-to-assemble Time consumption and frustration To read directions before I start to work I found a part that will not fit I found …

Demands #196 / #197 : Devise a 3 minute performance about Derek Jarman / Derek Jarman’s ‘The Garden’

Demand #190 : Create an immersive sound piece about giving up

Demand #183 : Devise a 3 minute performance about sunshine on your face

Demand #174 : Devise a 3 minute performance about a children’s story where the hero, called “Poo”, is in fact a real poo and not a bear

Demand #176 : Make a structuralist film about Ingmar Bergman

Demand #188 : Write a relentless list about naivety in love

I was naive in love and then lost it I was naive in love and took myself out I was naive in love and oh how the …

Demand #178 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about the death of pop

“Genre-fying” Is it corrupting you? Is it anaesthetising you? Is it corrupting you? Are you genre-fying? Tell me is pop dying? Are you genre-fying? Tell me is pop dying? Britney, Bieber, Backstreet Boys We …

Demand #171 : Make a structuralist film about wirearchy vs hierarchy in organisations (a remix of work by Michel Cartier, John Husband & Benoit Massé)

Remixed from the original work by: Authors : Michel Cartier, John Husband, constellationW Designer, motion graphic : Benoit Massé, Utopiko

Demand #177 : Create an immersive sound piece about the collision of excellence and mass popularity

“Slanting and shadow-cutting” After Eric Satie, Gregorio Allegri, J.P Contamine de Latour and Roy Orbison

Demand #175 : Write a relentless list about true love

Part One • Doris Day – Secret Love (1954) • Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1956) • Frankie Laine – A …

Demand #168 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about creating an immersive sound piece about making a structuralist film about devising a 3 minute performance writing a relentless list about composing a two minute pop song

“The Promise of Undying Love” Oh, this is murder A crisis of motivation Singing for my supper Two minutes of silence (Escaping childhood, escaping childhood) Thrown into depression A triumph of sadness My …

Demand #167 : Write a relentless list about why a National Broadband Network will result in more than just ‘more porn, faster’

I Better health care—people living in regional, rural and remote areas will have improved MORE PORN, FASTER specialists and doctors, without having to travel long …

Demand #159 : Make a structuralist film about a missing person who gets found

Demand #163 : Create an immersive sound piece about existence before you were born

Demand #150 : Devise a 3 minute performance about the screaming body

Demand #151 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about THE HUDSON RIVER

“Muhheakantuck” From North to South Through Eastern New York It rises at Lake Tear of the Clouds A river named ‘Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk’ 315 miles, 315 miles The river flows both ways The river …

Demand #156 : Write a relentless list about feather dusters

1 An implement used for cleaning 2 Typically of a wooden-dowel handle 3 Typically with feathers from either the male or female ostrich bird 4 Typically wound onto …

Demand #149 : Make a structuralist film about bears

WARNING: Contains Adult Content!

Demand #147 : Create an immersive sound piece about undying love

Demand #142 : Create an immersive sound piece about your childhood

Demand #139 : Devise a 3 minute performance about triumph

Demand #131 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about juvenile sexuality

“Orientation, Disorientation” The structure of his body resembles that of the adult form We observe the changes Sexual feelings, behavioural stages Adolescent development Intensified desires, intensified desires Boy sees boy Girl sees …

Demand #124 : Devise a 3 minute performance about missing in action

Demand #130 : Write a relentless list about the trouble with great literature

After Louisa May Alcott, George Ade, Jane Austen, James M Barrie, Emily Bronte, Lewis Carroll, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Fyodor …

Demand #118 : Make a structuralist film about owls

Demand #112 : Create an immersive sound piece about whispering

Demand #110 : Write a relentless list about cheese

Abbaye de Belloc Abbaye de Citeaux Abbaye du Mont des Cats Abertam Abondance Acapella Ackawi Acorn Adelost Affidelice au Chablis Afuega’l Pitu Airag Airedale Aisy Cendre Allgauer Emmentaler Alverca Ambert American Cheese Ami du Chambertin Anejo Enchilado Anneau du Vic-Bilh Anthoriro Appenzell Aragon Ardi Gasna Ardrahan Armenian String Aromes au Gene de …

Demand #109 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about the horrific rise and rise of evangelism in the west

“Satan Under The Red Lights” You who do not hold these beliefs Would you prefer the good news? Or the awful damning truth? The awful damning truth Where will …

Demand #101 : Make a structuralist film about sadness

Demand #108 : Write a relentless list about an abandoned amusement park

The following is a list of Australian and New Zealand amusement parks and theme parks that have since been closed or abandoned: New South Wales • El …

Demand #92 : Devise a 3 minute performance about Dolly Parton

Demand #98 : Create an immersive sound piece about silence

Demand #91 : Make a structuralist film about post-structuralism

Demand #97 : Write a relentless list about your personal failures

1 Scratching under my eyes to execute the appearance of illness but it was all in my head 2 Sad days I held onto my pillow …

Demand #84 : Devise a 3 minute performance about giving your audience pleasure

Demand #87 : Create an immersive sound piece about immersive sound pieces

After Eno, Oval and Aix Em Klemm – “While Airport Luxury”

Demand #76 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about Pumping Gas

“Gasoline” Turn off the engine Put out the cigarette Decrease your risk of static shock Select your fuel grade Lift the lever up And start pumping And start pumping Watch the numbers fall Watch …

Demand #67 : Create an immersive sound piece about Birdsong

Demand #65 : Make a structuralist film about depression

Demand #62 : Make a structuralist film about looking

Demand #75 : Write a relentless list about writing a relentless list

i Is this what you would like me to write or ii Perhaps I could write something else something that has to do with iii Lists that …

Demand #58 : Devise a 3 minute performance about two minutes long

Demand #48 : Write a relentless list about Shameless Self Promotion

“Tale of an 18 year history” 1992. Screening Desire. Debut performance made by Jason Sweeney and Fiona Sprott, under the guise of Safe Chamber. Interrogating the …

Demand #54 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about Expressions Dance Company

“Contemporary Temporary” On thin ice, dancing There are vanities crossing Oh these fragments of memory They dance alone, alone together On thin ice, dancing Contemporary, temporary “Provocative moves with a surge of …

Demand #52 : Devise a 3 minute performance about singing for your supper

Demand #43 : Compose a 2 minute pop song about Murder

“Murder Song” Pistol fire Switchblade knife A sharpened axe And brass knuckles A club with nails An electric shock baton Oh these are a few of the things that will kill you Could …

Demand #42 : Write a relentless list about things that take as long to write as to do

To stay silent To criticise you To make some harsh judgement To draw quick conclusions To speak before being spoken to To answer before the question To end your sentences To laugh …