overview of the installation at Location One, NYC, June 2003 18 laser prints in panels of varying sizes were hung on a long wall. This format supported crossreading of the stories and references between characters, objects and actions.	QT movie 1.5 MB

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true looks takes place in a SoHo furniture store. The artist's friends and colleagues -dancer, cook, choir member -become covert protagonists. Mingling with the clients, shop assistants and teamsters they are instructed to initiate subtle dramatic occurrences amidst the beds and sofas. Everyday patterns of consumer behavior are being poached, subverted into micro-dramatic moments which are followed and captured by the store's webcam system.
A selection of these images, as well as captures of daily life in the shop, are then made into a series of picture stories with texts taken from the notebooks of theatermaker Richard Foreman.
true looks was first exhibited at Location One in New York in June 2003.

cast Kyle Bukhari, Dennis O'Connor, Holly Weiss & Joe Schultz, Duron Jackson, Jocelyn Ruggiero, Atsushi Ogata, Nathalie Angles & Charlotte Soehner, and many others.
webcam operators Mike Tyler & Isabelle Jenniches (New York), Michelle Teran (Amsterdam)
text Richard Foreman
illustration GMD THREE

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