In Its quarter to ten. This is really happening Arnell framed the stage with two loud speakers opposite each other. The sound piece was a two-channel, un-synched pre-recorded reading of a text called, Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes. It played through the two speakers facing each other. Thus, the same voice spoke from two different positions in the room, intervening with each other. The audience was asked to enter the stage and continuously walk back and forth between the speakers. The artist brought onto the stage a pile of tree branches, a handsaw and a knife, a pile of rope, six candles and a black plastic bag filled with feathers together with 12 white eggs and a matchbox. During the next 25 minutes, Arnell engaged with these different materials through actions of sharing and destruction. She wrote on the wall with a black marker: we simply have to trust each other.
Its quarter to ten. This is really happening (2013). Action, which took place as part of Alternate / Shelter, Movement Research Spring Festival (2013), curated by Vanessa Anspaugh, Hilary Clark, Mina Nishimura and Antonio Ramos at Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, New York.