Created for Jordan Knecht’s Untitled Final Friday at the Denver Art Museum on June 29th, 2018, I asked viewers to become participants by honestly and openly confessing their darkest anger, fear, and hatred towards “the other” by filling out A Form of Negativity.
Once guests filled out A Form of Negativity, they were asked to fill out A Form of Positivity as a way for each of us to remember that there is still so much good in the world, despite the constant barrage of negative news on a daily basis. I then asked guests to give this form to a stranger in the hopes of spreading good will.
Participants were invited to either archive or shred this confessed animosity. Does the act of holding onto one’s anger through archiving come at a price? What happens when we choose to let it go?
After the performance, on July 4th, 2018, I burned all of the shredded A Form of Negativity paper as a way of removing all of the hostile feelings that people wished to let go of. All of the archived pages will remain in archives in perpetuity.