The yearning to be understood.

Swimming, entangled and adrift in a chaos of meaningless conversation. Words that say something but are nothing...that only add to the muck of hyperbole. The sensation of speaking, of being heard, of passing vital information gleaned from your soul, your being...what was it you said?

The conceptual line between audience and performers dissolves for me at the beginning of tEEth’s Make/Believe, the moment the performers crawl towards the audience through the thin line of light bisecting them like a CAT scan. Throughout the piece, the performers humble themselves in a way that makes my mind osmosize into the stage-space and forget that I’m “watching a performance.” 

One of Michelle Ellsworth's video art projects is the Motavational Video Archive. In this she has created a range of motivational talks on everything from recovering from a bad conversation to going to yoga. The whole archive is worth perusing, but here's one on how to deal with calling in sick to work: