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The Behavioral Subject (A Mental Model), 2009
Video performance, 16:45 min
Performed on-site at a market research focus group facility
The Kitchen, NY, NY

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Video Still: The Behavioral Subject (A Mental Model). 2009.


Video Still: The Behavioral Subject (A Mental Model). 2009.


Video Still: The Behavioral Subject (A Mental Model). 2009.


Video Still: The Behavioral Subject (A Mental Model). 2009.


Video Still: The Behavioral Subject (A Mental Model). 2009.

Performed at a market research focus group facility. In this work divided into three sections: Landscape, The Behavioral Subject, and The Unwitting Manslayer Situation, the drawings and actions of this semi-improvised, solo private performance for the camera are set against generic and alienating sites used for corporate focus-group research where surveillance and observable behaviors are put to use for commercial means. Lutz nods to a part of Levinas' 'City of Refuge' text concerning 'Unwitting Manslayer[s]' as useful in understanding the contemporary subject for whom the far-reaching implications of routine choices have been rendered immeasurable.