[UNTITLED

MINIATIURE]




Joshua William Gelb

Spatial Artist

Krit Robinson

Sound Designer

Nick Kourtides

Originally Produced by

Jesse Cameron Alick & Lauren Miller

Presented by HERE Arts Center and Theater in Quarantine as part of the HARP Artist Residency.

Performed, created, and video designed by:

HYBRID, IN-PERSON ENCOUNTERS EXTENDING BEYOND THE SCREEN

[UNTITLED MINIATURE]

For eight consecutive nights — three hours each night — Theater in Quarantine founder Joshua William Gelb was confined to a 34” × 19” box at HERE Arts Center, a scaled-down replica of the original closet calibrated to the proportions of a 30” television screen.


Across 24 hours, the performance unfolded simultaneously for online viewers, on HERE’s URHERE platform, and in-person attendees, who could move freely through the installation. A live chat, shared by both audiences, was rendered aloud via automated text-to-speech — creating a continuous loop of observation, commentary, and response.


Untitled Miniature stages a performance of feedback between audience and performer, the body and its mediated double — asking what happens to privacy when every moment is framed, broadcast, and consumed. .

“Hard to watch. Hard to look away…"

New York Theater

“Exercising a form of endurance theater… Gelb underscores his thesis:

when our bodies are made for viral content, how bare can they be

to score clicks and comments?”

Brooklyn Rail

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