Catching myself falling from a skateboard

a performance in which I tried to time myself falling off a skateboard to the ten-seconds of the Polaroid self-timer. I set the timer by rotating a plunger that would methodically wind back before plunging down to push the Polaroid One-step shutter button. The camera is propped on a step of a wooden step-ladder, facing the wall with my 45-rpm phono player, with the Stranglers' cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic "Walk on By" grinding out.
The piece began with me in an angry state, pissed off and probably piss drunk. I played X-Ray Spex "Identity" while changing into my performance clothes--grey tights beneath my jeans and red t-shirt. [News of the death of Poly Styrene come on the day I update this entry: http://www.spinner.com/2011/04/26/poly-styrene-dead/]



On the wall are a poster from New York post headline about the Son of Sam, an Itek photo enlargement of a self-portrait in center, and a grid of previously taken Polaroid self portraits on the right side of the wall. Of the five photos I have documenting the performance, three of the five show the same wall as two of the pics here.