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In Bothell this weekend there's something called Country Village that's apparently a period piece shopping experience. So, kind of like a smaller version of Port Gamble? And 4Culture and the artist Amy-Ellen Trefsger will be doing an installation there in which AE lives on a small boat in the village for nine days.
You know, it doesn't really strike us as having the same impact as that guy who lived in the water bubble thing in New York for like a month (which was apparently so impactful that we can't even remember the dude's name). Oh yeah, David Blaine. It's not quite David Blaine material. It also reminds us of that Sex in the City episode where Carrie and Baryshnikov go visit a gallery at four in the morning to try to catch an artist slacking off on his performance piece. If we go visit Amy-Ellen and the Country Village after visiting hours will be find her and a few shop girls chatting on cell phones and watching TV or will they be there churning butter and working the loom or something?
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Nine frickin' days? That's all? I lived on a 28' sailboat for 4 1/2 years! And, it was right next to a restaurant, definitely a public space, where people could watch me - um, you know, doing stuff like cooking, watching TV, reading books, while they ate their $30 hazelnut seared Mahi-Mahi or whatever.
Does that make me a performance artist too?
This was just one of her many performances. As for your living on a boat for 4.5 years and the question of that experience being art..
If you view it as art, it was art.