Are You Being Served? 

Lead artist/researcher: Ernst Fischer

Are you being served? continues Ernst Fischer's research into the etymological link between performance and service (including issues of etiquette) and follows on from his piece The Art of (Self-) Service, which was first performed at 'HOME' (London, 14/2/02) and later at LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (27/2/02) and 'KAMPNAGEL' (Hamburg, 15/5/04 as part of Eat It - Theater & Essen, 8/5/04 - 24/5/04). Both pieces are part of an ongoing project, which seeks to explore the possibility of formulating a post-modern performance etiquette with emphasis on creating different frames for the presentation of intimate performances. The following points are of particular research interest:

• The individual spectator as participant and
  collaborator/the performer as observer
• Performance as Provision (and as provisory)
• The fragmentation and reconfiguration of the performer's body as source material(s) and object
• Issues of scale/size in relation to performance space